HET 

Jrlollandsch  Gcnootschap  van  New  York. 
MAALTIJD,  

Den  8sten  van  Lotiwmaand,  1886,  ten  7  ure,  's  avonds, 

in  het 

Hotel  Brnnszvick, 

Hoek  ^de  Laan  en  2ystc  Straat. 


Ex  ICtbrtfi 


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HET 


Hollandsch  Genootschap  van  New  York. 


MAALTIJD, 


Den  8s ten  van  Louwmaand,  1886,  ten  7  lire,  's  avonds, 

in  het 

Hotel  Brunswick, 

Hoek  ^de  Laan  en  2'/ste  Straat. 


THE  DE  VINNE  PRESS. 


The  First  -minimal  TDimier 

OF 


Eindelijk  wordt  een  Spruit  een  Boom. 


Hotel  ^runszvick,  yamtary  8,  1886. 


SPIISKAART. 


OESTERS  op  de  halve  schaal. 

SAUTERNE. 

SOEP. 

Dikke  Rivierkreeften  Soep. 

Vleeschnat  Van  Dyke. 

VINO  DE  PAS  TO. 

ZIJSCHOTELTJES. 

Verschillende  Pasteitjes. 
Paukenvorm  Morlot. 
Radijs.     Selderij.  Olijven. 

VISCH. 

Baars  in  mooten,  op  de  vvijze  van  Durmont  d'Urville. 


GEKRUIDE  GERECHTEN. 

Ossenhaas  in  schijven,  op  den  rooster  gebraden, 
met  artisjokken  er  op,  stijl  Ch6ron. 

BORDEAUX. 


IN  TE  BRENGEN. 


Kalkoen  Vleugels,  op  de  wijze  van  Dreux. 
Zwezerikken  gehakt  in  kegelvorm. 
Gebraden  Speenvarken. 

PERRIER  JOUET. 

IRROY  GRAND  EXTRA  SEC. 


GROENTEN. 


GEBRAAD. 


Aardappelen.  Dunsel. 

Boontjes,  Kasteleins  stijl. 

HOLLANDSCHE  PUNCH. 


Kanefasrug  Eendvogels. 

Kwakkelen  op  geroosterd  sneedje  brood. 
Gekruide  Selderij-Sla. 

BOURGONJE  WIJN. 

ZOETE  GERECHTEN. 

Podding.     Cura?ao-Gelei.  Ijs. 
Piramiden  van  Amandelgebak.     Verschillende  Koekjes. 
Rotterdamsche  Janhagel.      Weesper  Moppen.  Marsepijn. 
Utrechtsche  Kopjes. 

NAGERECHT. 

Edammer  kaas  en  Haagsche  beschuitjes. 

Fransche  kaas  van  Brie  en  Roquefort. 
Vruchten.  Noten. 
Hartsterkingen.     Fransche  Brandewijn.  Schiedammer. 
Koffie. 

Sigaren.      Pijpen  en  Tabak. 


HEIL-DRONKEN. 


The  Crystal  Goblet  used  by  the  President  is  the  Schenek  Goblet, 
brought  from  Holland,  A.  D.  1640,  and  loaned  by  a  descendant 
0/  that  family,  Mrs.  George  M.  Van  A'ort. 

1.  The  Holland  Society  of  New -York. 

"  Eindelijk  wordt  een  Spruit  een  Boom." 

Judge  Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst. 

Music.    "  Wien  NeSrlandsch  Bloed." 

2.  The  President  of  the  United  States. 

Music.    "  President's  March." 

3.  Why  Are  We  Here  This  Evening? 

fudge  Augustus  Van  Wvck. 

Song.    "  Drinklied." 

The  Society  a.vd  the  Precentor. 

4.  The  States- General  of  Holland, 

The  prototype  of  the  United  States  of  America. 

U.  S.  Senator  Daniel  IV.  Voorbees. 

Music.    "Star-Spangled  Banner." 

5.  The  Virtues  of  our  Dutch  Ancestors. 

The  %ev.  "Dr.  Van  Dyke,  Jr. 

Song.    "  Now  Skall  to  the  Vikings  !  " 

The  Precentor. 

6.  Fatherland. 

Hon.  Chauncey  iM.  Depew. 

Song.    "For  Home  and  Fatherland." 

The  Society  and  the  Precentor. 

7.  The  City  of  New-York. 

"  Eindelijk  wordt  een  Spruit  een  Boom." 

Hon.  1{pbert  'B.  %oosevelt. 

THE  RAPALJE-CUP  will  be  passed  around. 

This  is  the  cup  given  to  Sarah  Rapalje,  the  first  white  child 
bom  on  Long  Island,  by  her  husband,  Hans  Hanse  Bergen, 
at  their  piarriage,  A.  D.  1647,  and  is  loaned  by  their  lineal 
descendant,  Mr.  Jeremiah  Johtison,  Jr. 

SoxG.    "This  Silver  Cup  of  Mine." 

The  Precentor. 

8.  Dutch  Liberty  of  Conscience  [Vrijheid  van  Geweten], 

Which  meant  liberty  of  conscience  to  others  as  well  as 
to  themselves. 

Hon.  William  C.  T>e  IVitt. 

Music.    "  Wilhelmus  van  Nassauwen." 


Commissie  tot  regeling  van  den  zMaaltijd. 


Robert  B.  Roosevelt. 

George  M.  Van  Hoesen. 

George  G.  De  Witt,  Jr. 

George  W.  Van  Siclen, 

Secretaris. 


FIRST  ANNUAL  DINNER 


-OF- 


TT^E   f-JOLLAND  QOCIETY 


■  OF  NEW-YORK- 


HOTEL  BRUNSWICK.  Friday,  January  8,  1886. 


huItres— BLUE  POINT  Sauternes 

POTA6ES 

Bisque  d'Ecrevlsses  Consomm^  Van  Dyck  Sherry 

Varies      HOES  D'CEDVRE  Varies 
Timbales  Morl6t 

EELEVfiS 

Filets  de  Bass,  Dumont  d'Urvllle  Bordeaux 
Escalopes  de  FUet,  ch^ron 

ENTREES  Perrier-Jouet 
AUes  de  Dtnde  k  la  Dreux  Ex.  Dry  Special 

Croquettes  de  Eis  de  Veau,  Parisienne 

Cochon  de  Lait  aux  Canneberges 

LEGUMES 

Pommes  Ducbesse  Laitues  brais^es  Irroy  Grand  Sec 

Flageolets  maitre  d'HOtel 


eOti  Bourgogne 

Canvas-Back  Duck  CaUles  au  cresson 

CWerl  Mayonnaise 

ENTREMETS 
Ponding  Neerlandais  Gel^e  Amsterdam 

Glaces  de  Fantaisies 
Gateaux  assortis  Dutch  Koekjes  Liqueurs 

PifiCES  mont£es 

Fromages       Fruits  &  Dessert  Mottoes 

Caf6  Cigares  et  Tabac 


THE  FIRST  DINNEE 


OF 


THE  HOLLAND  SOCIETY  OF  NEW-YORK. 
TlHE  Spijskaart,  or  Bill-of-fare  in  Dutch,  for  this 


JL  occasion,  was  translated  from  the  French  menu 
of  the  Hotel  Brunswick  by  the  Secretary  of  The  Hol- 
land Society,  there  being  now-a-days  no  such  thing 
as  a  distinctively  Dutch  biU-of-fare ;  the  Secretary's 
labors  were  kindly  revised  as  to  the  declensions,  and 
as  to  a  few  of  the  expressions,  by  several  patriotic 
Hollanders  in  New- York,  but  in  other  respects  it  is 
claimed  as  entirely  original  and  unique.  The  Hotel's 
menu,  as  printed,  varied  somewhat  from  the  copy 
fiu-nished  for  translation. 

The  blessing  of  Grod  was  invoked  by  the  Rev.  Wm. 
H.  Ten  Eyck,  D.  D. 

When  the  toasts  were  reached,  the  President  of  the 
Society,  Judge  Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst,  responded  to 
the  first,  to  which  the  motto  of  the  Society  "  At  last 
a  sprout  win  become  a  tree "  was  deemed  especially 
appropriate,  in  view  of  the  fact  that,  formed  April 
30th,  1885,  it  numbered,  at  the  date  of  the  dinner, 
over  two  hundred  members. 

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THE  HOLLAND  SOCIETY. 


When  The  Holland  Society  was  toasted,  Judge 
Hooper  C.  Van  Vokst,  its  President,  spoke  as 
follows : 

Gentlemen  of  The  Holland  Society: 

IT  is  a  good  thing  to  have  faith,  and  to  take  part 
with  earnestness,  in  the  very  beginning  of  a  use- 
ful institution.  Men  who  act  thus,  with  respect  to 
commercial  or  poUtical  organizations,  which  in  the 
end  succeed,  are  regarded  as  sagacious. 

The  Holland  Society  was  formed  within  the  year 
past;  it  holds  out  no  promise  of  material  gain,  or 
political  success,  and  yet  we  see,  by  the  faces  of  the 
honorable  men  around  this  board,  to  what  large  pro- 
portions it  has  already  reached,  and  how  hopeful  are 
its  future  prospects. 

The  principles  upon  which  this  Society  rests,  and 
which  form  a  part  of  its  organic  law,  are,  in  them- 
selves, generous  and  life-giving. 

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ARTOTYPE  E     BIERSTADT   N.  Y 


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"  The  sprout,"  in  the  language  of  om*  motto,  "  has 
ah'eady  become  a  tree " ;  and  it  is  a  tree  which  will 
produce  more  than  leaves.  In  the  proper  season  we 
may  look  for  abundant  fruit. 

You  have  done  well  to-night.  What  remains  of  the 
ample  repast  with  which  these  tables  an  hour  ago  were 
bui'dened,  shows  that  you  are  not  behind  your  fore- 
fathers in  all  that  indicates  excellence  at  the  social 
board.  The  Dutch  always  abound  in  social  and  hos- 
pitable qualities.  The  work  of  this  Society  is  not, 
however,  ended  with  the  dispatch  of  an  annual  dinner. 

In  the  words  of  our  charter  and  constitution,  it  is 
our  work  to  collect  and  preserve  information  respect- 
ing the  early  history  and  settlements  of  the  City  and 
State  of  New-York  by  the  Dutch,  and  to  discover, 
coUect,  and  preserve  all  still  existing  documents  and 
monuments  relating  to  their  genealogy  and  history. 
We  are  to  perpetuate  the  memory  and  foster  and 
promote  the  principles  and  virtues  of  the  Dutch 
ancestors  of  the  members  of  this  Society,  and  to  pro- 
mote social  intercourse  among  ourselves.  We  are  to 
cause  "to  be  prepared  and  published,  when  the 
requisite  materials  have  been  discovered  and  pro- 
cured, collections  for  a  memorial  history  of  the 
Dutch  in  America,  wherein  shall  be  set  forth  the 
part  belonging  to  that  element  in  the  growth  and 
development  of  American  character,  iustitutions,  and 
progress." 

Now,  we  must  aU  agree  that  these  pm-poses,  each 
and  aU  of  them,  are  worthy  of  the  highest  commen- 
dation. 

The  country  from  which  om-  forefathers  came  has 
an  eventful,  and  yet  a  truly  noble,  history,  and  one 
which  challenges  om'  supreme  admu-ation. 


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We  may  well  strive  to  perpetuate  the  virtues  of 
those  from  whom  we  are  descended  —  their  courage, 
their  inflexible  integrity,  their  patriotism,  theii"  love 
of  enlightened  liberty,  and  the  great  sacrifices  they 
made  to  secure  it.  In  the  category  of  the  moral  vir- 
tues are  placed  love  of  home,  love  of  coimtry,  love 
of  the  land  of  our  forefathers,  a  tender  regard  for  the 
memory  of  our  ancestors,  a  veneration  for  their 
unsullied  character  and  their  great  achievements. 

These  sentiments  are  common  to  humanity,  and 
are  highly  conservative  in  their  influences  over  us. 
They  are  not  mere  matters  of  education ;  they  enter 
into  the  very  life  of  true  men  everywhere. 

One  who  has  no  country  has  no  patriotism ;  and 
one  who  loves  not  the  memory  and  deeds  of  a  noble 
ancestry  gives  but  little  promise  of  an  honorable  or 
useful  life,  A  descent  from  such  men  is  a  pledge  of 
our  own  good  conduct  as  men  and  citizens. 

Who  so  dastardly  as  to  soil  by  evil  deeds  the  clear 
escutcheon  of  his  fathers  ?  Holland  and  her  people, 
with  whom  we  in  the  past  are  closely  connected, 
and  to  whom  we  are  now  linked  by  strong  ties,  is 
worthy  of  our  continued  interest  and  love.  It  wiU 
be  the  work  of  this  Society  to  preserve  the  records 
still  existing  among  us  of  their  deeds  in  this  City 
and  State,  in  their  eaiiy  days.  This,  I  am  sure,  will 
be  a  grateful  task.  We,  their  descendants,  owe  trib- 
utes of  duty  to  them,  and  we  should  do  aU  in  our 
power  to  keep  their  memories  fresh  and  green.  It  is 
to  be  greatly  feared  that  life  is  much  too  real  and 
earnest  with  us,  and  that  in  the  daily  conflicts  which 
engage  us  we  are  apt  to  overlook  or  postpone  the 
claims  of  the  past.  Now,  every  good  undertaking 
which  wiU  take  it  from  the  immediate  present  to  a 


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consideration  of  the  past,  or  the  future,  must  enlarge 
the  mind. 

We  are  to  see  to  it  that  the  tide  of  new  ideas 
coming  over  us  and  the  engrossing  care  of  daily- 
pursuits  do  not  absolutely  obliterate  the  memory  of 
the  past  and  render  us  indifferent  to  the  manners, 
as  well  as  the  memory,  of  those  wise,  brave,  honest, 
and  prudent  men,  our  forefathers,  who  did  so  much 
toward  founding  and  fashioning  the  institutions 
under  which  we  live.  If  it  be  a  question  of  the  sur- 
vival of  the  fittest,  we  now  interpose  our  claim  to 
the  enduring  life  of  the  Dutch. 


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THE  second  toast,  that  to  the  President  of  the 
United  States,  was  then  drunk  standing,  and 
the  band  played  "  The  President's  March." 

Judge  Van  Vorst  then  read  the  following  letter  : 

"  Executive  Mansion,  Washington, 
"  January  4th,  1886. 
"  Hon.  Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst, 

"'President,  etc.,  New -York  City. 

^^My  Dear  Sir : — The  President  duly  received  your 
recent  letter  conveying  the  invitation  of  The  HoUand 
Society  to  attend  its  first  annual  dinner  to  be  held 
at  the  Hotel  Brunswick  on  Friday  evening,  January 
8th,  and  directs  me  to  say  that  he  regrets  that  his 
ofiicial  duties,  which  make  it  impracticable  for  him 
to  leave  Washington  at  this  time,  will  prevent  its 
acceptance. 

"Expressing  the  President's  thanks  for  the  coui-tesy 
of  the  invitation,  I  am, 

"  Very  truly  yours, 

"  Daniel  S.  Lamont, 

"Private  Secretary." 

u 


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President  Van  Vorst  also  read  the  following  letter 
from  our  feUow-member,  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Bayard : 

"  Depaktment  of  State,  Washington, 
"  December  5th,  1885. 

"  Hon.  HooPEB  C.  Van  Vorst, 

' '  President  of  the  Holland  Society  of  New  -  York. 

Bear  Sir : — I  beg  to  acknowledge,  with  many 
thanks,  your  invitation  to  address  The  Holland  So- 
ciety at  its  first  annual  dinner  on  January  8th,  and 
regret  exceedingly  that  in  view  of  my  pubhc  duties 
here  I  feel  constrained  to  forego  the  pleasure.  Asking 
you  to  make  expression  of  my  hearty  good-wiU  to  our 
Society  and  the  purposes  it  is  designed  to  promote, 
I  am,  very  respectfully, 

"  Your  obedient  servant, 

"  T.  F.  Bayaed." 

Also  the  following  from  the  Minister  Plenipo- 
tentiary and  Envoy  Extraordinary  of  the  Nether- 
lands : 

"  Legation  of  the  Netherlands, 
"  Washington,  D.  C,  December  29th,  1885. 

"  Sir : — I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  re- 
ceipt of  the  kind  invitation  of  The  Holland  Society  of 
New- York  to  their  annual  dinner,  on  January  8th 
next,  and  regret  exceedingly  that  the  state  of  my 
health  will  not  allow  of  my  going  to  New- York  to 
be  present  on  this  occasion. 

"It  would  have  afforded  me  much  pleasure  to  have 
met  so  distinguished  a  company  of  gentlemen  who 
descend  in  direct  line  of  Dutchmen,  and  show  that 
they  keep  in  remembrance  the  nationahty  of  their 
forefathers. 


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"  I  can  now  only  convey  to  you  my  sincere  sym- 
pathy with  your  organization,  and  tender  my  cordial 
thanks  for  the  attention  shown  by  you  to  the  G-ov- 
ernment  I  represent.  The  relations  of  the  Netherlands 
and  the  United  States  of  America  have  always  been 
harmonious,  and  I  recognize  in  your  letter  a  new 
mark  of  the  friendship  existing  between  the  two 
coimtries. 

"  Assuring  you  of  my  very  high  appreciation  of 
the  courtesy  extended  to  me  by  your  Society, 
"  I  have  the  honor  to  be  respectfully,  sir, 
"  Your  obedient  servant, 

"  Gr.  DE  Weckheklin. 
"  The  Hon.  Hooper  C.  Van  Voest, 

"  President  of  The  Holland  Society,  New -York  City.'''' 

Also  telegrams  of  regret  at  absence  from  Dr.  Albert 
Vander  Veer,  our  Vice-President  for  Albany,  and 
from  U.  S.  Senator  Charles  H,  Van  Wyck,  of  Nebraska, 
and  a  cablegram  from  the  United  States  Commis- 
sioner for  the  Alabama  claims  : 

"  London,  50  minutes  past  4  p.  m. 
"  January  8th,  1886. 

"  Van  Siclen,  HoUand  Society,  Hotel  Bmnswick, 
New- York.   Hearty  greetings  to  assembled  diners. 

"  Van  Wagner." 

Also  letters  of  regret  from  Mr.  "W.  H.  H.  Bogart,  of 
Aurora,  N.  Y.,  and  the  Rev.  Dr.  Edward  P.  Terhune, 
of  Brooklyn. 

The  President  then  announced  the  third  toast, 
"  Why  are  we  here  this  evening  ? "  which  was 
responded  to  by  Judge  Augustus  Van  Wyck,  of 
Brooklyn. 


4HI0IYPE,    t.  BI6KSIAU1. 


SPEECH 

OP 

JUDGE  AUGUSTUS  VAN  WYCK. 


Mr.  Chairman  and  Gentlemen  : 

THE  matchless  Burke  once  stood  speechless  in  the 
presence  of  the  dumb  walls  of  his  "Alma  Mater," 
appalled  with  sad  memories,  revived  thereby,  of 
schoolmates  dead  and  departed.  And  one  would 
think  that  this  presence,  so  suggestive  of  a  long  line 
of  worthy  ancestors,  dead  and  gone,  would  be  suf- 
ficient to  hush  us  into  silence.  Our  officers  have 
determined  otherwise,  perhaps  wisely  so,  but  be  that 
as  it  may,  like  loyal  soldiers  enlisted  in  a  good  cause, 
we  must  their  commands  obey.  The  toasts  present 
a  most  varied  list  of  topics,  but  I  venture  to  predict, 
at  the  very  threshold  of  these  proceedings,  that  the 
responses  will  disclose  only  the  single  text  of  Hol- 
land and  our  Dutch  ancestors.  And  this  is  truly 
comprehensive,  for  if  any  one  of  you  will  trace  your 
ancestry,  doubling  up  each  generation  backward, 

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you  will  discover  that  they  equal  in  number  the 
population  of  this  great  commonwealth,  a  subject 
too  broad  and  large  to  be  dealt  with  in  an  after- 
dinner  speech,  save  in  the  most  casual  and  general 
way,  passing  over  individuals  and  referring  to  classes 
only. 

The  reputation  of  our  progenitors  must  not  suffer 
from  too  much  modesty  on  our  part,  though  our 
utterances  should  be  free  from  the  idle  pride  and 
extravagances  evinced  by  the  Mikado's  Chief  Secre- 
tary of  State,  Pooh  Bah,  in  his  boastful  praise  of  his 
troglodyte,  pre-adamite  and  protoplastic  ancestors. 

It  is  a  pleasure,  of  no  ordinary  nature,  to  meet  here 
in  this  hall,  hung  with  trophies  of  a  rich  tradition, 
around  the  social  board,  so  many  of  the  sons  of  our 
fathers,  and  their  appearance  reveals  that  they  have 
been  blest  with  some  of  the  dollars  and  wampum  of 
their  thrifty  daddies. 

"  Why  are  we  here  this  evening  ?  "  Is  it  an  acci- 
dent? Is  it  fondness  for  wine?  though  it  is  solemnly 
recorded  on  the  cold  printed  pages  of  history  that 
Cornelius  Van  Vorst,  doubtless  an  ancestor  of  your 
most  eminent  chairman,  when  starting  on  a  perilous 
journey  from  Pavonia  to  visit  Grovernor  Wouter 
Van  TwUler,  earned  with  him  the  best  of  wine. 
Is  it  love  of  frivolity  that  brings  us  here,  or  does 
some  nobler  and  more  philosophical  cause  prompt 
this  gathering  ? 

It  is  in  response  to  a  most  creditable  sentiment  im- 
planted in  the  breast  of  man  by  the  Creator,  whether 
you  style  him  a  Divinity,  first  cause,  or  evolution; 
and,  with  no  intention  to  flatter,  the  character 
of  this  company  rather  favors  the  last  theory, 
which  stamps  you  the  sm'vival  of  the  fittest  of  the 


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Dutch  descendants.  A  sentiment  which  is  the  real 
basis  of  the  physical,  moral,  intellectual,  and  social 
economy  of  man,  the  family,  and  human  society. 
The  ambition  and  instinctive  deske  to  emulate  the 
most  commendable  attributes  of  one's  ancestors,  hold- 
ing them  up  for  examples  to  be  followed  by  the 
hving  and  transmitting  them  to  future  generations 
for  their  guidance.  To-night  we  meet  to  celebrate 
the  best  qualities  of  a  race  that  averages  high.  A 
people  that  for  eighty  long  and  tedious  years  waged 
a  bloody  and  wasting  war,  under  the  inspiration  of 
Wnham  "The  Silent,"  not  for  territorial  conquest, 
not  for  the  purpose  of  humbling  a  sister  nation,  or 
securing  the  monopoly  of  the  trade  of  India,  East  or 
West,  but  for  the  grand  cause  of  civil  and  religious 
Uberty,  and  the  establishment  of  a  republic  that 
should  and  did  recognize  the  greatest  liberty  of 
action  and  thought  in  the  individual,  consistent  with 
the  exercise  of  equal  liberty  by  his  feUow-man. 

The  iafluence  of  this  contest  was  far-reaching, 
liberahzing  Europe  and  changing  the  history  of  the 
world,  and  making  a  possibility,  our  American  Re- 
pubUc.  Who  can  estimate  the  value  thereof?  To 
it  the  world  is  largely  indebted  for  a  free  press,  free 
religion,  and  free  schools,  the  logical  outgrowth  of 
republican  government,  and  so  extensively  enjoyed 
by  the  present  generation;  and  you  might  as  well 
attempt  to  calculate  the  value  of  the  air  we  breathe, 
the  water  we  drink,  and  the  Earth  we  inhabit,  as  of 
these ;  rob  a  people  of  them — you  will  blot  out  their 
glories,  annihilate  their  progress,  and  extinguish 
their  hopes.  They  were  a  most  heroic  people  in 
peace  as  well  as  in  war,  and,  by  virtue  of  industry 
and  directness  of  pmpose  never  surpassed,  recovered 


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and  reclaimed  from  the  stormy  and  angiy  billows 
of  a  turbulent  sea  the  very  land  upon  which  they 
reared  a  nation  that  became  the  mistress  of  the 
water  highways  of  the  world  and  its  commerce,  and 
learned  to  love  it  with  an  ardor  of  no  common  in- 
tensity, which  is  so  well  evidenced  by  the  motto, 
"Amor  patriae  vincit,"  on  the  "Beggar's  Sack,"  the 
badge  of  the  Hollanders,  that  decorated  the  soldiers 
of  liberty,  and  now  adorns  the  walls  of  this  saloon. 
And  history  records  no  instance  of  greater  moral 
courage  and  power  than  that  of  your  grandsires, 
twenty  thousand  strong,  confronted  by  an  irresistible 
army  of  two  hundred  thousand  under  the  direction 
of  the  wily  Louis  of  France,  when  they,  rather  than 
see  their  country  dishonored  and  overrun  by  hostile 
invaders,  surrendered  it,  not  to  the  French,  but  to 
the  merciless  waves  of  the  mighty  deep,  with  firm- 
ness and  yet  with  anguishing  pain. 

They  were  an  intensely  practical  people,  and  mi- 
grated to  America,  possessed  of  no  Quixotic  idea  of 
building  in  a  day  a  Dutch  empire  in  the  West ;  not 
as  refugees  from  religious  intolerance  as  did  the 
Puritan  and  Huguenot  from  England  and  France; 
they  came  not  to  conquer  and  despoil  the  weak  as 
did  Cortez  in  his  bloody  march  from  the  sea  to 
the  haUs  of  the  Montezumas,  and  Pizarro  in  his 
perfidy  to  the  unfortunate  Incas  of  Peru;  nor  in 
search  of  the  fountain  of  everlasting  youth  as 
did  the  visionary  Ponce  de  Leon,  but  they  came 
to  challenge  new  opportunity  to  work  and  toil  in 
fresh  fields  and  reap  the  fruits  thereof;  in  search 
of  fertile  lands  to  cultivate ;  a  good  harbor  for  com- 
merce, so  located  as  to  foster  trade  with  the  natives ; 
and  they  found  aU  these,  when  they  selected  New- 


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York  and  New  Jersey,  rich  lands,  the  finest  harbor 
in  the  world  at  the  mouth  of  the  magnificent  Hud- 
son, through  which  and  the  lakes  the  abundance 
of  the  mighty  North  and  vast  West  have  ever  since 
been  poured  into  the  lap  of  this  city. 

This  imperial  city,  the  metropolis  of  the  conti- 
nent in  commerce  and  eveiy  other  respect,  attests 
the  wisdom  and  foresight  of  your  forefathers.  The 
Dutch  were  a  conservative,  domestic,  and  contented 
people,  who  did  not  believe  that  the  glory  of  power 
was  in  the  possession  thereof,  but  rather  in  the  use 
thereof  along  the  hne  of  moral  purpose  to  the  benefi- 
cent end  of  shedding  the  effulgence  of  the  star  of 
progress  over  the  world;  and  they  came  from  a 
country  of  free  institutions,  and  brought  with  them 
to  New- York  the  vital  spirit  of  their  nation:  free 
communities,  the  comer-stone  of  American  liberty ; 
the  free  exercise  by  all  of  their  reUgious  creeds; 
toleration,  that  most  luscious  fruit  of  the  stately  tree 
of  broadened  friendship  and  manly  affection;  no 
taxation  without  consent,  the  nightmare  of  the 
robber  knights  of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth 
centuries ;  and  love  of  countiy,  tempered  with  that 
high  sense  of  honor,  manifested  by  "WiUiam  of 
Orange,  when  he  was  offered  by  Charles  the  hand 
of  Mary,  daughter  of  the  Duke  of  York,  and  despotic 
rule  over  the  Netherlands,  if  he  would  join  the  allies, 
and  he  replied,  "My  country  trusts  me,  I  will  not 
sacrifice  it  for  any  personal  interest,  but  if  need  be 
die  with  it  in  the  last  ditch,"  and  then  returned  to 
his  native  land  and  afterward  encouraged  his 
coimtrymen,  telling  them  that  even  if  their  soil,  with 
all  its  marvels,  was  buried  beneath  the  briny  ocean, 
all  was  not  lost.  Mark  you,  all  was  so  buried,  but 
4 


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the  French  were  expelled  and  Holland  was  saved. 
"William,  with  honor,  married  Maiy,  and  became  the 
much  loved  ruler  of  the  Netherlands  as  well  as  the 
greatest  of  the  monarchs  of  England  itself.  Honor 
certainly  has  its  rewards. 

The  early  Knickerbockers  made  friends  of  the  red 
man  by  fair  dealing,  exhibited  friendship  for  their 
white  neighbors,  and  devoted  themselves  to  agri- 
culture, trade  with  the  natives,  and  commerce  on  the 
sea,  and  buUt  comfortable  homes,  churches,  and 
schools.  They  were  under  the  dominion  of  The 
West  India  Trading  Company,  the  interest  of  which 
in  them,  like  that  of  all  soulless  corporations,  was 
measured  solely  by  the  question  of  profit;  and  while 
England,  in  furtherance  of  her  fixed  colonial  policy, 
was  supplying  arms  and  ships  of  war,  and  urg- 
ing the  Puritan  to  seize  upon  the  possession  of  their 
Dutch  neighbors,  the  home  government  became 
blind  to  the  danger  threatened,  and  England  swal- 
lowed up  the  New  Netherlands  and  donated  her  to 
the  Duke  of  York;  but  the  Dutch  spuit  survived, 
and  to  them  the  English  governors  accorded  greater 
privileges  than  were  conceded  to  the  colonies  peo- 
pled with  the  Britons  themselves.  The  liberal  com- 
mercial policy,  great  latitude  of  religious  faith,  and 
neighborly  feeling  of  the  New  Netherlanders  at- 
tracted to  her  borders  many  from  the  other  colonies, 
and  through  these  different  races,  living  and  work- 
ing under  Divine  guidance  in  harmony  for  the 
common  benefit,  each  lifted  to  a  higher  plane  by  the 
aid  and  presence  of  the  others,  to  the  one  ennobling 
and  the  other  elevating,  the  seed  of  free  government 
was  sown  broadcast  over  the  continent.  These 
subtle  forces  were  sUently  working  out  results  never 


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di'eamt  of  by  the  statesman,  philanthropist,  or  politi- 
cal economist.  The  law  of  compensation  in  nature, 
animate  and  inanimate,  discloses  that  every  race 
excels  in  some  respect,  and  as  the  blood  of  Holland, 
England,  Ireland,  Scotland,  and  Sweden  and  other 
nations  were  mixed  and  commingled  in  the  veins  of 
the  people,  mental  vigor  increased,  moral  strength 
advanced,  and  national  prejudices,  habits,  and  cus- 
toms, that  once  in  their  conflict  seemed  to  forbid 
forever  the  unification  of  the  American  Colonies, 
were  amalgamated;  the  best  traits  of  each  survived 
and  the  pernicious  ones  were  wiped  out,  and  a  new 
race  was  created,  "  The  American,"  without  which 
this  nation,  a  marvel  in  the  world's  history,  could 
never  have  existed. 

Innate  difiidence,  or  some  cause  other  than  the 
want  of  Uterary  capacity,  seems  to  have  deterred 
and  prevented  the  Dutch  of  Holland  and  New 
Netherlands  from  writing  the  history  of  then-  own 
great  achievements  in  the  vast  field  of  worldly  ac- 
tivities, till  the  gracefid  and  pleasing  pages  of  Wash- 
ington Irving's  Eaiickerbocker,  intended  only  to  be 
a  burlesque  and  good-natured  satire,  have  been 
actually  accepted  by  many  for  serious  and  ti'uthful 
history. 

And  may  this  Society  become  the  exciting  cause 
of  inspiring  yet  the  facile,  just,  and  truthful  pen  of 
some  Motley,  to  illustrate  the  deeds  of  an  ancestry 
that  will  never  bring  the  blush  of  shame  to  your 
cheeks,  but  rather  redden  them  with  the  flush  of  just 
pride. 

Gentlemen,  as  you  appreciate  the  blessings  of 
good  government,  the  priceless  heritage  of  civil  and 
religious  liberty,  the  esteem  of  mankind,  and  the 


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fate  of  our  race  for  future  ages,  I  implore  you  to 
reverence  the  memory  of  your  fathers,  and  per- 
petuate their  inflexible  \di*tues  and  principles,  the 
preserving  charm  of  our  glories  as  well  as  a  most 
potential  force  in  their  creation. 


Then  was  sung  the  following  Drinking-song,  Pro- 
fessor Piet  Hein  Vanderweyde  presiding  at  the  piano; 
the  Secretary,  who  was  also  the  Precentor,  sang  the 
first  verse  in  Dutch,  and  all  came  in  on  the  chorus ; 
the  remaining  verses  were  sung  jointly,  in  mixed 
Dutch  and  Enghsh,  and  with  some  slight  disregard 
of  the  ensemble  and  of  nuances  of  expression,  but 
very  successfully. 


DRINKLIED. 

(  harinclied) 


Not<'.  Astlie  siill  Dutcli  Herriiif^ 
provokes  thirst,  lln' Hf rrin^'  song 
is  often  followed  by  a 


1.  My  friends  com lef  us 
1.  Kom  vrtcn  •  den  neem  een 


2.  M;ui  is  a  jol  .  ly 
2.  Man     is       tot      vro  .  lijk  • 


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di'ink   a  •  };aiii,This     li .  qu i«l  f rum  <he  iieo  -  tar   vinf,  For 

an  •  d<-r  glas,VunU  god-df-  Itj  ■  ke  dnii  .  ven -sa/i,  ffant 

an  •   i  •  uial,  For      h«'      i;;    boss  of  land  luid   sea,  Aiiil 

hi  id  gr .  netffd,Hant  hij      is    baas  van  land    en     zee,  llij 


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wa  •  frr  niiikes  ^you  duiub  and   stu.pid,  learn  fb  is  from  fhe 

wa  .  ter  muakt  U     stum    en   dom,Dat  leert   gij    van  de 

drinks  and  si njjs  and  l.'iujjhs  and  loves,  the  ^  'wls    in     j;en  •  e  • 

eet      en  drinkt  en  lagrht  en  ku.st,  de  vrou  ■  men    hij  he- 


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tish  •  es;  They  ran  not      sinjj-  nor  laugb  uordriidt  This 

vis-schen;  Zij  zin  •  gen      niel,  zij     (ag.chen  niet.  En 

•  ral,  Let  us      re  •  juice  there-fore  and  now,  We 

mint,  Laat  mis     daar  •  voor  recht   vro  ■  lijk    zijn,  En 


1H  Tt 


21^^  Tenor. 


l?f  Bass. 


Sr^i^Bass. 


Piano. 


JQ^'  Choi 


beak-er        full     of       isparklini;-      wiae  But] 


wits  •  sen      mijn,    wat  groot  ver  •  drt'et,  Mua 


di'iiiJi    a       toasf    fo       those  we        l<)ve,  Oui 


le  •   dig       de   ■    zen       wijn  bo     •      haul,  Tot 


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sweet-heai'fs  an«l    our  wives,  Hi|>,  hip,     Hur.  rah.'  Hur-rah.' 


Utf  .  Je     vroHw  en    kind.  Hip,  Hip,  Hoe  •  ral    Hoe  ■  ral 


-* — ^ 


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Judge  Van  Vorst  then  said  that  the  next  toast  was 
to  have  been  handled  by  an  honored  member  of  the 
Society,  Senator  Voorhees,  but  that  he  had  been 
unable  to  leave  his  duties  at  Washington.  The 
following  telegram  from  the  Senator  was  read : 


"  Washington,  D.  C,  Jan.  7, 1886. 

"  GrEOKGE  W.  YaN  SiCLEN, 

"  Secretary  Holland  Society. 

"  It  is  with  deep  and  painful  regret  that  I  find  it 
utterly  impossible  for  me  to  leave  my  duties  here.  I 
had  promised  myself  great  pleasure  in  meeting  The 
Holland  Society,  but  I  cannot  honorably  be  absent 
from  the  Senate. 

"  D.  W.  Voorhees." 


There  is  only  one  man,  continued  President  Van 
Vorst,  who  is  capable  of  successfully  tackling  two 
toasts  at  the  same  time,  and  that  is  Chauncey  Depew. 
He  has  kindly  consented  to  take  this  toast,  to  "  The 
States  General  of  HoUand,"  and  the  one  to  which  he 
was  regularly  assigned,  the  "  Fatherland." 

A  gentleman  waving  an  orange  handkerchief  pro- 
posed three  cheers  for  the  Huguenot  annex,  and  they 
were  given  with  a  will,  while  Mr.  Depew  bowed 
profoundly. 


SPEECH 

OF 

CHAUNCEY  M.  DEPEW. 


aooD-EVENiNG,  Van,  said  he,  and  a  roar  of 
laughter  drowned  the  reply,  if  any  was  made. 
Don't  all  speak  at  once.  (Eenewed  laughter.)  I 
never  knew  a  Van  who  wasn't  always  on  hand  when 
there  was  anything  to  eat  and  drink,  but  this  collec- 
tion beats  any  that  I  ever  saw  before.  There  is 
just  one  thing,  by  the  way,  which  the  PhUhamaonic 
Society  will  never  regret ;  and  that  is  that  the  Dutch 
songs  attempted  here  to-night  are  not  the  only  musi- 
cal gems  of  which  our  city  can  boast.  Gentlemen, 
one  of  the  most  curious  psychological  conundrums 
that  a  man  was  ever  called  upon  to  solve  is :  Why  did 
Judge  Van  Wyck,  when  he  asked  if  we  came  here  to 
get  a  full  drink,  look  straight  at  me  ?  What  are  we 
here  for?  it  has  been  asked.  We  have  the  Saint 
Nicholas  Society,  a  most  estimable  organization,  that 
for  an  annual  tax  of  ten  dollars  gives  you  four  stated 
banquets,  and  two  dinners  at  haK  price.   It  has  a 

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large  and  respectable  membersMp,  which,  in  keeping 
with  the  thrifty  precepts  of  our  ancestors,  regularly 
attends  the  four  free  banquets,  and  is  unavoidably 
detained  from  being  present  at  the  two  dinners  at 
half  price.  I  am  a  lover  of  old  things  —  old  wine, 
for  instance,  and  old  women.  Grentlemen,  what 
heart  here  has  not  thrilled  this  evening  at  that 
beautiful  painting  by  Mr,  Turner,  the  "Old  Dutch 
Woman  Reading  her  Bible ! "  How  many  a  gray  head 
here  knelt  years  ago  at  such  a  knee !  The  influence 
of  Dutch  women  such  as  that  has  molded  the  fate 
of  religious  liberty  in  this  whole  world!  And, 
gentlemen,  I  respect  the  Saint  Nicholas  Society,  for 
it  is  a  venerable  and  an  ancient  one.  Why,  then, 
should  we  form  another?  I  will  teU  you.  It  is 
because  you  and  I  have  felt  our  blood  on  fii'e  when 
we  were  present  at  those  dinners,  and  have  heard  it 
said :  "  This  is  not  a  Dutch  Society.  The  pipes  are 
Dutch;  the  menu  is  in  alleged  Dutch;  but  this  is 
merely  a  society  of  old  New- York,  and  includes  men 
of  all  nationalities,  and  of  no  nationality." 

That  is  why  The  HoUand  Society  was  founded. 
But  still  it  is  asked,  What  are  we  here  for  ?  We  know 
what  we're  here  for.  We've  got  it.  Those  fellows 
over  in  Delmonico's  to-night,  at  the  Merchants' 
Dinner  to  Governor  HiU,  don't  know  what  they 
are  there  for,  and  they  never  will  know  until  the 
prizes  and  offices  are  distributed.  Then  they  wiU 
realize,  as  many  better  men  have  realized  before 
them,  that  on  a  January  day  of  a  certain  tempera- 
ture many  are  left,  and  but  few  are  chosen.  The 
famous  question  of  the  patriotic  Mr.  Flanigan  of 
Texas,  in  the  National  Convention  at  Chicago, — What 
are  we  here  for  if  we  don't  get  the  offices?  —  be- 


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comes  reflectively  both  painful  and  significant 
when  the  gentlemen  who  are  forgotten  in  the 
spoils  remember  that  they  paid  for  the  dinner. 

I  went  down  to  the  reporters'  table  before  the 
speech-making  commenced, —  there  were  twelve 
of  them  there  at  the  time;  there  isn't  one  left 
now, —  and  I  said  to  them,  "Boys,  I  suppose  you 
have  come  to  hear  Senator  Voorhees  speak  on  the 
silver  question  and  Secretary  Bayard  discuss  our 
diplomatic  relations  with  Austria.  I  am  sorry 
that  they  didn't  come;  but  there  wiU  be  at  least 
one  good  speech  to-night.   You  had  better  stay." 

But  with  one  accord  they  answered  and  spake 
unto  me,  saying :  "  Chauncey,  we've  reported  that 
speech  seventeen  times!"  But  to  come- back  to  the 
question,  Why  has  not  a  distinctly  Dutch  Society 
been  formed  before?  Because  in  the  Dutch  char- 
acter there  are  two  principles  —  one,  that  it  is 
wrong  to  do  wrong,  and  everybody  knows  it;  the 
other,  that  it  is  so  natural  to  do  right  that  it  is 
expected  of  every  one,  and  there  is  no  use  making 
a  fuss  about  it. 

I  tell  you,  gentlemen,  it  is  to  Holland  that  this 
country  owes  her  common  schools  and  her  love 
of  liberty;  to  Holland,  that  heroic  little  state 
whose  noble  Prince  said,  when  offered  the  hand  of 
King  James's  daughter,  "I  cannot  sacrifice  my 
honor  and  my  country's  honor  for  the  sake  of 
your  alliance";  to  that  heroic  little  state  that 
stood  alone  and  unsupported  among  her  enemies 
and  listened  to  the  voice  of  her  Prince  when  he 
said,  "Though  our  country  disappear  beneath  the 
sea,  if  our  independence  be  preserved,  all  is  not 
lost."    And,  thank  Grod,  the  sea  did  roll  over  her 


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fields!  Her  honor  and  her  independence  were 
preserved;  and  her  Prince  married  the  daughter 
of  King  James,  without  the  exaction  of  an  obliga- 
tion from  him  out  of  keeping  with  truth  and  right. 

We  hear  much  of  the  Puritan  and  of  Plymouth 
Eock.  The  true  Puritan  was  a  bigot  and  a  sec- 
tary ;  fighting  to  preserve  his  own  religious  liberty 
and  to  destroy  that  of  every  one  else ;  believing 
conscientiously  in  the  political  freedom  of  himself 
and  the  pohtical  suppression  of  everybody  else. 
The  Puritans  left  England  and  went  to  Holland. 
There  were  four  hundred  of  them,  divided  into 
three  hundred  sects.  They  went  up  to  the  Hague, 
and  there  in  the  Great  Congregation  they  learned 
that  one  man's  religion  was  as  good  as  another's. 
And  Grod  in  his  mercy  kept  them  thirteen  years 
in  a  state  of  probation  in  Holland  before  he  let 
them  land  on  Plymouth  Rock.  And  in  their  after 
lives  they  did  credit  to  their  preceptors,  and  to 
the  lessons  they  had  learned  while  in  that  state 
of  probation.  It  was  the  teachings  of  Holland 
that  rendered  the  Revolution  and  the  Constitution 
possible.  Those  Pilgrim  Fathers  that  journeyed  to 
New  England  by  way  of  Holland  never  burned 
witches  or  whipped  Quakers  or  disgraced  them- 
selves and  their  religion  by  other  exhibitions  of 
narrow  intolerance.  It  was  the  Puritans  who  came 
after  them,  straight  from  England  without  the 
softening  influence  of  HoUand,  who  smirched  the 
pages  of  New  England's  history. 

This,  gentlemen,  was  the  country  too  modest  to 
write  her  own  history;  the  country  that  had  to 
wait  the  coming  of  a  Motley  before  her  story 
could  be  fitly  told.  Her  children,  the  Dutch 
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settlers  of  America  and  their  descendants,  have 
too  long  emulated  the  modesty  of  the  mother 
country.  We  have  quietly  occupied  the  back 
pews  while  the  Yankees  and  Scotchmen  and  Irish- 
men at  their  annual  dinners  have  claimed  every- 
thing that  is  worth  claiming  in  our  city  and 
country.  Why,  gentlemen,  there  are  people  who 
actually  believe  that  there  was  no  demand  ever 
made  for  civil  and  religious  hberty  until  the 
Declaration  of  Independence;  people  who  are 
ignorant  of  the  fact  that,  two  centuries  before  that 
document  was  signed,  Holland  had  poured  out  her 
blood  and  treasure  for  those  very  principles, 
thundered  them  in  the  face  of  Europe  from  her 
cannons'  mouth;  flaunted  them  o'er  sea  and  land 
upon  the  Beggars'  Sack,  and  formally  enunciated 
them  in  words  which  Jefferson  only  quoted.  Many 
fondly  believe  that  in  America  was  first  founded 
a  Republic  of  Sovereign  States ;  but  the  plan  in 
its  letter  and  spirit  was  copied  from  the  Dutch. 
By  the  compact  of  Utrecht,  the  seven  provinces  of 
the  Netherlands  formed  a  free  government  in  1579 
with  the  sentiment  "  Unity  makes  Might,"  and  in 
1787  the  United  States  of  America  were  builded 
upon  the  same  model,  and  adopted  for  their  motto 
"  E  pluribus  Unum."  The  principles  of  Dutch  Lib- 
erty were  education  and  toleration.  The  Puritans 
found  in  Holland  a  school  system  supported  by 
the  state,  and  the  doors  of  her  universities  open 
to  students  of  all  creeds  and  nationalities,  at  a  time 
when  all  other  seats  of  learning  were  closed  to 
those  who  denied  their  dogmas  in  religion  or  did 
not  commune  with  their  Church.  Free  thought, 
free   speech,  inquiry,  discussion,  and   the  open 


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Bible  were  unknown  except  in  this  little  corner  of 
Europe,  which  its  indomitable  people  had  rescued 
from  the  sea,  and  waged  perpetual  battle  with  the 
ocean  to  keep.  The  Pilgrims  brought  the  common 
school  from  Holland  and  planted  it  on  Plymouth 
Eock,  and  it  has  been  for  two  hundred  years  the 
inspiration  of  Yankee  growth,  power,  and  con- 
quest, and  the  corner-stone  of  New  England's 
eloquence,  and  the  source  of  her  boast,  that  she 
alone  has  furnished  the  brains  for  American  liberty 
and  expansion.  But  the  Knickerbockers'  school- 
master and  dominie  were  already  estabhshed  insti- 
tutions on  Manhattan  Island,  and  their  beneficent, 
civilizing,  and  humanitarian  influences  following 
the  Indian  trails,  the  highways  of  commerce,  the 
Dutchman's  own  Erie  Canal,  and  the  Great  Lakes, 
carried  the  elements  and  fructifying  forces  of  free- 
dom into  new  territories  and  laid  the  foundations 
of  sovereign  states. 

The  Jew,  the  Huguenot,  the  Puritan,  and  even  per- 
secuted CathoUcs  were  welcomed  in  HoUand  with 
hospitality  and  employment,  and  unharmed  and 
unmolested  could  each  worship  God  in  his  own 
way,  and  were  only  restrained  from  interfering  with 
their  neighbor  worshiping  God  in  his  way.  But  in 
that  critical  period  in  the  history  of  the  race,  when 
every  hope  of  humanity  was  lost  everywhere  in  the 
world,  except  HoUand;  when  she  alone,  relying  in 
steadfast  faith  upon  the  God  above  and  the  waves 
about  her,  was  sheltering  the  rights  of  man  against 
the  combined  forces  of  despotism  and  bigotry,  she 
was  not  content  to  simply  save  liberty ;  but  by  the 
invention  of  types  and  the  creation  of  a  printing- 
press,  she  organized  the  new  crusade  against  dark- 


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ness  and  superstition  in  church  and  state,  which  has 
ever  since  been  triumphantly  marching  down  the 
ages,  emancipating  the  mind  from  the  thralldom  of 
ignorance  and  bigotry,  and  transferring  power  from 
the  throne  to  the  people. 


Mr,  Depew's  speech  was  followed  by  the  Dutch 
national  song,  "Wien  Neerlandsch  Bloed,"  sung  by 
the  Society  and  the  Precentor  in  a  manner  which  in- 
duced the  complimentary  remarks  with  which  the 
Eev.  Dr.  van  Dyke,  Jr.,  began  his  response  to  the 
fifth  regular  toast,  "  The  Dutch  Virtues." 


Published  for 


THE  HOLLAND  SOCIETY  OF  NEW  YORK. 


Dutch  National  Song* 


PIANO. 
FORTE. 


Andante. 

V  Til 


J.   f?J    JlJ  J 


1.  Let  him     in  whom  old    Dutch  blood  f  lows, Un  -  taint  -  ed,  free  and 

...  2. We  broth-ers.true  un  -  to  a  man, Will  sing  the  old  song 
An«lante.  '  i  i 


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strong;  Whose  heart  for  Home  and  coun-try  glows,  Now  join  us  in  our  song;  Let 
yet;  A  -  way    with  him   who    ev  -  er  can     His   Home  or  land  for  -  get!  A 


him  with  us  lift  up  his  voice,  And  sing  in  pa-triot  hand,  The 
hu  -  man  heart  glow'd     im     him  n^er,    W'e     turn  from  him  our       hand,  Who 


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song  at  which  all  hearts  re-joice,  For  Home  and  Fa-ther  -  land.  For 
cal-lous  hears     the    song  and  pray'r.  For  Home  and  Fa-ther  -  land,  For 


Home 


— 

and     Fa-ther  -  land!         3.  Pre  -  serve,  oh  God,  t  he      dear        old    ground  Thou 
^       Home  and     Fa-ther    -  land!         4. Loud  ring  thro'' all    re    -    joic-   ings    here.  Our 


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The     land  where  they       a        era  -  die    found,  And 
our     friends  so   dear.  Our 


,  pray'r  oh    LiOrd,    to      Thee!        i    I're  -  serve  our    Home,  oui 


^       where   they    found    a        grave!       We      call,       oh  God,   to        Thee    on    high,  As 
Hoi    -  land,  great  and      free!      From      youth  thro''  life      be        this    our    song,  Till 

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Home  and   Fa  -  ther  -  land.  Our 


Home  and  Fa-ther- land. 
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SPEECH 

OP 

THE  EEV.  DR.  HENEY  J.  VA^  DYKE,  JR. 


Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen  : 

ONE  feature  of  this  dinner  reminds  me  of  the 
sign  which  I  am  told  is  posted  in  a  saloon  in 
Leadville,  "  Please  don't  shoot  at  the  musician ;  he 
is  doing  his  level  best." 

I  congratulate  you,  and  every  son  of  a  Dutchman, 
and  all  sober,  conservative,  Grod-fearing,  liberty- 
loving  people  everywhere,  on  the  fact  that  the 
Dutchman  is  not  dead.  He  has  not  joined  the 
company  of  old  Grrimes  and  Praise-Grod-Barebones. 
The  descendants  of  other  stocks  may  have  to  meet, 
from  time  to  time,  to  mourn  with  unseemly  hilarity 
the  disappearance  of  theii*  ancestor,  and  to  fire  off 
sky-rockets  over  his  grave.  They  may  have  to  say 
to  each  other,  with  smiling  faces,  "  The  old  man  is 
dead ;  he  was  a  grand  old  man.   Now  let  us  have  a 

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jolly  funeral."  But  no  such  melancholy  duty  falls  to 
our  lot  to-night.  This  is  no  funeral;  not  even  a 
wake. 

"  We  come  to  praise  the  Dutchman,  not  to  bury  him." 

For  he  is  still  alive,  and,  judging  from  all  appear- 
ances, able  to  sit  up  and  take  his  gruel. 

And  if  any  one  shall  ask  why  this  is  so,  why  Time 
and  the  Mikado  and  all  the  rest  of  it  have  not  been 
able  to  obUterate  him,  and  annihilate  him,  and  put 
him  out  like  a  brief  candle  in  an  unwholesome  at- 
mosphere, I  answer  it  is  because  of  his  broad,  solid, 
generous,  weU-balanced,  and  decently  regulated  vir- 
tues. Virtue  is  the  only  thing  that  lives  long  in  this 
world ;  and  virtue  itself  cannot  live  very  long  unless 
it  carries  ballast  enough  to  keep  it  on  a  level  keel, 
and  self-restraint  enough  to  avoid  those  furies  of 
righteousness  which  transform  it  into  vice. 

I  am  well  aware  that  in  speaking  of  the  Dutch 
virtues  I  am  departing  from  the  ordinary  routine  of 
oratory.  The  subject  has  been  much  neglected.  It 
must  be  confessed  that  our  ancestors  have  fared  but 
poorly  in  the  post-prandial  and  monumental  distri- 
bution of  honors.  The  Sons  of  St.  Patrick  have 
claimed  the  wit,  and  Fame  has  laughed  and  allowed 
the  claim.  The  Sons  of  St.  Andrew  have  claimed 
the  shrewdness,  and  no  one  was  sharp  enough  to 
dispute  with  them.  The  Sons  of  St.  Denis  have 
claimed  the  graces,  and  with  such  pohteness  that 
they  could  not  be  refused.  The  Pm-itan  has  claimed 
the  virtues  so  solemnly  and  grimly  that  it  would 
need  a  more  than  mortal  courage  to  deny  him.  And 
what  is  left  for  the  Dutchman !  Nothing,  but  a  good 
digestion,  a  large  bump  of  philoprogenitiveness,  and 


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modesty.  He  is  requested  to  take  these  and  be 
thankful. 

But  on  an  occasion  like  the  present,  when  the  first 
of  these  qualities  has  been  proved  by  the  consump- 
tion of  this  dinner,  and  the  second  is  demonsti-ated 
by  the  presence  of  so  many  sons  of  Holland  in  the 
male  line,  it  will  be  no  violation  of  the  third  quality 
to  claim  in  a  simple,  serene,  and  moderate  way,  that 
in  the  possession  of  those  virtues  which  are  most 
agreeable  to  live  with,  the  vii'tues  which  wash  best, 
and  wear  longest,  om-  Dutch  ancestors  are  unex- 
celled, um'ivaUed.  How  else  shall  we  account  for 
their  history?  "Nature,"  says  one  of  then*  own 
poets,  "has  done  nothing  for  Holland,  and  so  the 
Hollanders  had  to  do  everything  for  themselves." 
Their  country  is  the  mere  fag-end  of  Europe,  an 
alluvium  of  French  rivers,  as  Napoleon  called  it,  an 
original  collection  of  sand-banks  and  mud-flats,  less 
than  haK  as  large  as  New  Jersey,  fluctuating  in  size 
with  the  ebbing  and  flowing  of  the  sea,  like  that  old 
lady  down  on  Long  Island  who  had  eaten  so  many 
clams  that  her  waist  rose  and  fell  with  the  tide.  Their 
most  celebrated  mountain  is  no  higher  than  Trinity 
steeple,  perhaps  not  quite  so  high.  Their  climate  is 
composed  of  three-parts  fog,  and  three-parts  frost, 
and  foui'-parts  odor  of  Limburger  cheese.  And  yet 
the  Dutch  have  written  their  name  and  their  princi- 
ples large  on  the  page  of  universal  history;  have 
swept  the  seas  with  their  fleets  and  planted  vast 
colonies  in  every  part  of  the  habitable  globe ;  have 
enlightened  Europe  with  their  imiversities,  and 
founded  the  system  of  free  schools ;  have  kept  alive 
the  sacred  flame  of  religious  liberty,  when  every 
other  ci\'ilized  nation  was  puffing  at  it  to  blow  it 


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out.  They  have  enriched  literature  with  the  name 
of  Erasmus,  the  most  illustrious  man  of  his  age ;  and 
science  with  the  name  of  Leeuwenhoek,  the  first  of 
biologists,  the  discoverer  of  the  capillary  circulation 
of  the  blood ;  and  law  with  the  name  of  Grotius,  the 
greatest  of  jurists;  and  the  art  of  war  with  the 
names  of  William  of  Orange,  and  that  old  trump 
van  Tromp,  unconquerable  and  irresistible  by  land 
and  sea.  They  have  discovered,  or  at  least  perfected, 
the  art  of  printing,  and  adorned  the  art  of  painting 
with  the  productions  of  Cuyp  and  Euysdael,  Paul 
Potter  and  Rembrandt.  They  have  solved  the  prob- 
lems of  commerce,  and  settled  the  laws  of  trade. 
And  finally,  within  the  last  year  it  has  been  dis- 
covered that  a  Dutchman  wrote  a  good  part  of 
"  Paradise  Lost,"  and  that  "  Yankee  Doodle "  is  an 
original  Dutch  song.  Who  can  deny  the  truth  of 
those  majestic  lines  which  should  have  been  written 
by  one  of  our  greatest  poets : 

Survey  the  race  of  man  with  all-embracing  view, 
From  England  to  Japan,  from  China  to  Peru; 
With  comprehensive  eye  aU  fields  of  progress  scan, 
And  everywhere  you'U  find  a  Dutchman  in  the  van. 

Verily  these  be  great  deeds  for  a  little  people,  and 
they  have  only  been  accomplished  by  the  solid 
strength  of  the  Dutch  virtues. 

1.  The  first  of  these  is  courage.  Dutch  courage 
has  been  often  laughed  at.  But  Philip  II.  did  not 
laugh  at  it.  He  swore.  And  Louis  XIV.  did  not 
laugh.  He  wept  and  fled.  Courage  runs  in  the 
blood  of  the  descendants  of  those  ancient  Frisians 
who  for  centuries  defied  the  power  of  imperial  Eome 
to  crush  their  indomitable  spirit.    They  don't  say 


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much,  but  they  fight  like  the  fiend.  They  have  no 
lust  of  conquest,  but  whoever  has  tried  to  conquer 
them  has  come  back  with  wet  feet  and  a  sore  head. 
For  ages  they  have  lived  "  on  a  war-footing  "  with 
theu*  great  enemy  the  sea,  shut  up  within  theu"  hollow 
land  as  in  a  fortress  at  whose  doors  the  biUows  are 
forever  bellowing  in  vain,  looking  forth  from  their 
narrow  river-gates  upon  the  cruel  and  ti'eacherous 
hosts  of  the  ocean,  as  the  Spartans  looked  from  the 
Pass  of  Thermopylae  upon  the  Persian  phalanxes, 
and  defying  them  with  calm  and  patient  heroism. 
This  long,  persistent,  successful  struggle  with  the 
most  relentless  of  foes  developed  and  confirmed  a 
spirit  of  quiet  and  imconquerable  bravery.  So  that 
when  Spain,  in  the  insatiable  gi'eed  of  her  sullen 
pride,  stretched  out  her  dark  wings  to  cover  Europe 
with  the  shadow  of  her  tyranny  and  the  shame  of 
her  Inquisition,  HoUand  alone, — a  mere  fly-speck  in 
her  vast  dominions,  a  mere  mud-puddle  at  the  ex- 
tremity of  the  continent, — little  Holland  alone  dared 
to  resist  her,  in  a  desperate  eighty-years'  fight  for 
Uberty,  the  like  of  which  the  world  has  never  seen 
before  or  since.  Alva,  Eequesens,  Don  John  of 
Austria,  Alexander  Farnese,  aU  the  great  captains 
of  oppression,  march  against  her  in  vain.  She  re- 
sists, she  conquers,  she  is  free. 

Courage !  Witness,  ye  living  walls  of  Leyden, 
standing  inflexible  against  the  world's  assaults  and 
crowned  with  the  glory  of  a  heroism  which  could 
neither  be  beaten,  nor  starved,  nor  drowned  into  a 
base  submission.  Witness  brave  Barendz  pushing 
out  into  the  Arctic  Seas,  and  daring  the  horrors  of 
black  midnight  and  the  frozen  death,  for  love  of  his 
country.  Witness  brave  Van  Speyk,  who  in  1831 
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blew  up  his  ship  into  glory  rather  than  surrender  to 
his  enemy.  Witness  the  very  storks  of  Delft,  who 
were  consumed  in  the  burning  of  the  city  rather 
than  abandon  their  helpless  fledglings.  Witness  a 
thousand  splendid  pages  of  history  to  the  quiet, 
steadfast,  indomitable  courage  of  our  Dutch  an- 
cestors. 

2.  The  second  of  their  virtues  is  conservatism. 
This  may  be  briefly  defined  as  the  wisdom  to  know 
when  you've  got  a  good  thing  and  the  grit  to  hold 
on  to  it.  Its  physical  counterpart  is  a  talent  for 
sitting  down.  And  who  that  remembers  Irving's 
description  of  the  ship  and  the  wife  of  the  captain  of 
the  Goede  Vrouw — a  hundred  feet  long,  a  hundred 
feet  wide,  and  copper-bottomed — can  doubt  that  sit- 
ting down  is  an  exercise  for  which  the  Dutch  are 
naturally  adapted?  They  came  to  this  island  and 
saw  that  it  was  good  and  sat  down  upon  it  and 
waited,  until  now  their  trading-post  is  the  second 
commercial  capital  of  the  world,  and  their  farms  are 
worth  a  million  dollars  an  acre.  All  things  come  to 
him  who  knows  how  to  wait,  provided  he  has  some- 
thing good  to  wait  on.  It  is  a  grand  thing  to  be  able 
to  make  your  mind  sit  down.  A  restless  curiosity  is 
the  bane  of  progress.  An  itch  for  novelty  is  the 
curse  of  theology.  It  is  better  to  be  true  than  it  is 
to  be  original.  A  httle  genuine  old-fashioned  Chris- 
tianity would  do  us  more  good  than  a  thousand  new 
isms.  The  world  needs  not  so  much  a  crop  of  daring 
and  original  seekers  after  truth  as  it  needs  plenty  of 
men  who  will  hold  fast  to  the  truths  aheady  known 
and  the  principles  already  established,  and  do  their 
duty  honestly  and  quietly  in  the  sphere  of  life  where 
Grod  has  placed  them.   And  for  this,  in  religion,  in 


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politics,  and  in  social  morality,  our  Dutch  ancestors 
were  ever  famous.  When  the  Dutchman  gets  relig- 
ion, you  know  where  to  find  him. 

3.  One  more  virtue  belongs  peculiarly  to  our  an- 
cestors, and  that  is  liberahty.  This  does  not  mean 
indifference,  which  is  the  lack  of  convictions;  nor 
toleration,  which  is  a  mere  condescension  to  weak- 
ness. Liberality  means  a  broad  and  healthy  spirit, 
in  which  the  love  of  tmth  mingles  with  the  love  of 
freedom,  and  the  fear  of  the  Lord  coexists  with 
charity  toward  men.  "Eemember,"  said  Charles 
Sumner,  "that  with  the  highest  morahty  is  the 
highest  liberty."  I  shall  not  dwell  upon  this  virtue 
of  the  love  of  Uberty,  because  I  see  it  has  been  com- 
mitted to  more  eloquent  lips.  I  only  desire  to  say 
that  I  beheve  intolerance  is  no  mark  of  depth  of 
conviction,  but  merely  a  symptom  of  spiritual  dys- 
pepsia. When  you  see  a  man  ready  to  persecute  in 
flesh  or  spirit  those  who  do  not  believe  as  he  does, 
you  may  be  sure  that  his  own  creed  has  soured  on 
his  stomach.  Our  ancestors  were  not  much  afOicted 
in  that  way.  And  so  it  came  to  pass  that  when  all 
the  nations  of  Europe  were  divided  into  hostile 
camps,  Holland  was  the  one  sanctuary  of  a  free 
conscience.  And  when  the  New  Englanders  were 
smoking  and  hanging  witches,  the  Dutchman  smoked 
his  pipe  in  peace  and  hung  his  hams  in  the  chimney. 
And  when  the  constitutions  of  the  thirteen  original 
States  were  framed,  the  only  one  in  which  absolute 
religious  liberty  and  equality  were  clearly,  distinctly, 
and  forever  proclaimed  and  estabUshed  was  the 
State  of  New- York. 

Mr.  President,  it  has  been  said  that  there  are 
two  classes  of  men  in  the  world;  and,  by  infer- 


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ence,  two  classes  among  the  settlers  of  this  coun- 
try: The  Cavalier  and  the  Puritan,  the  worldling 
and  the  other-worldling,  the  fop  and  the  fanatic, 
the  man  of  pleasure  and  the  man  of  prejudice, 
Adonis  and  Corporal  Pride.  If  this  were  true  we 
should  be  in  as  sorry  a  plight  as  the  congregation 
of  that  colored  preacher  who  was  explaining  the 
journey  of  life :  "  My  bredren,"  said  he,  "  dar  am 
ony  two  roads  froo  dis  wuld.  De  one  am  de  broad 
and  narrer  way  dat  leadeff  to  ebberlastin  distraction. 
De  Oder  am  de  narrer  and  broad  way  dat  leadeff  to 
eternal  damnashun."  "  If  dat  am  de  case,"  cried  one 
of  his  hearers,  ^^dis  darky  takes  to  de  woods P  But 
we  are  not  in  such  sore  straits,  for  there  is  another 
class  of  men  in  the  world,  another  class  among  the 
settlers  of  this  country,  that  great  class  in  which 
I  believe,  in  spite  of  complainings  from  one  side  and 
sneers  from  the  other,  the  solid  body  of  our  sub- 
stantial and  law-abiding  people  is  still  contained, 
that  class  which  is  represented  to  our  minds  to-night 
by  the  Dutchman.  Believing  in  a  religion  which  is 
good  for  two  worlds ;  fearing  Grod  and  honoring 
the  king  without  a  desire  to  put  his  foot  on  any- 
body's neck ;  cultivating  the  hopes  of  heaven  side  by 
side  with  the  sweet  charities  and  graces  of  human 
intercourse ;  going  back,  not  to  the  Old  Testa- 
ment and  Mount  Sinai,  but  to  the  New  Testament 
and  Christ  for  the  principles  of  his  piety,  he  abides 
like  a  pillar  of  strength,  standing  four-square  to 
every  wind  that  blows. 

The  Puritan,  says  one  who  ought  to  know,  is 
dead.  God  rest  his  soul.  He  never  found  peace 
in  this  world.  May  he  fare  better  in  the  next. 
The  Cavalier  is  vanishing  since  doublets  and  rib- 


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bands  went  out  of  fashion.  His  legs  are  grow- 
ing so  thin  and  his  head  so  small  that  he  cannot 
long  endure.  But  the  Dutchman,  the  broad,  solid 
Dutchman  survives, — survives  in  the  spirit  of  our 
Constitution, —  sui-vives  in  the  liberality  which  is 
binding  all  denominations  of  Christians  into  unity, 
and  combining  them  in  those  works  of  practical 
charity  in  which  Holland  and  the  United  States  of 
America  stand  foremost  among  modern  nations, — 
survives  in  a  free  church,  a  free  press,  free  thought, 
and  free  schools, — the  Dutchman  survives.  And 
though  I  do  not  need  to  seek  any  strange  oath  to 
affirm  it,  it  is  my  solid  conviction  that  this  is  a  case 
of  the  survival  of  the  fittest. 


Hon.  Eobert  B.  Eoosevelt  responded  to  the  seventh 
regular  toast. 


SPEECH 

OF 

HON.  EGBERT  B.  EOOSEVELT. 

IT  is  difficult  for  any  resident  of  New- York  of  the 
present  day  to  realize  that  it  is  only  two  hundred 
and  fifty  years  since  this  city  and  island  were  a 
howling  wilderness,  the  particular  spot  on  which 
we  are  now  regaling  ourselves  being  an  especially 
nasty  brier  patch  beneath  a  dense  wood  and  sur- 
rounded by  an  unhealthy  swamp.  Although  the 
Half  Moon  entered  the  bay  in  the  year  1609,  and 
discovered  some  of  the  attractions  of  the  Island  of 
Manhattan,  and  the  Indians,  appreciating  the  weak- 
ness of  our  respected  ancestors,  brought  to  Hendrick 
Hudson  and  his  associates  offerings  of  tobacco,  noth- 
ing toward  the  practical  settlement  of  the  island  was 
accomplished  till  many  years  later.  Even  the  first 
ship.  New  Netherland,  in  which  we  fondly  suppose 
that  aU  of  our  first  families,  the  actual  progenitors 
of  The  Holland  Society,  came  over,  as  matter  of 
fact  carried  its  human  freight  up  the  river  to  Fort 

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ARTOTTPE,    E  BIERbTADT 


I 


] 


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Orange.  New- York  was  not  founded  till  May  6, 
1626,  when  Manhattan  Island  was  purchased  from  the 
Indians,  for  the  Dutch  colonists  brought  over  with 
them  one  quality  which  the  other  invaders  of  the 
Xew  World  might  have  imitated  with  advantage, 
the  great  gift  of  common  honesty.  They  bought 
their  land  and  did  not  steal  it.  The  sprout  then 
planted  has  become  the  magnificent  and  umbrageous 
tree,  with  its  far-spreading  branches,  under  the 
shadow  of  which  we  pass  oui-  daily  lives.  The 
sprout  long  remained  a  feeble  one ;  the  Dutch  West 
India  Society  had  more  important  matters  to  attend 
to  than  a  httle  plantation  amid  a  savage  forest  and 
forest  of  savages.  HoUand  was  then  the  most  enter- 
prising and  adventurous  nation  of  the  world,  and 
was  reaching  out  its  sti'ong  arms  everywhere  that 
there  was  an  ounce  of  gold  to  be  dug,  an  acre  of 
land  to  be  won,  or  a  beaver  skin  to  be  purchased. 
So  gi'eat  was  this  neglect  that  the  colonists  were  on 
the  point  of  returning  to  their  native  land  under  the 
discom'agement  of  a  useless  Indian  war.  With  true 
American  independence,  by  anticipation,  they  boldly 
threatened  their  superiors  that  if  certain  reforms 
were  not  made  they  would  take  themselves,  their 
wives,  families,  bag  and  baggage,  back  to  HoUand, 
and  let  the  plantation  go  to  the  dogs  or  the  Indians. 
The  meetiug  which  determined  on  this  course  of 
operations  was  the  first  Citizens'  Association,  and  is 
the  prototype  of  aU  the  numerous  reform  organiza- 
tions which  have  since  followed.  When  we  review 
aU  that  reform  has  since  brought  upon  us  we  almost 
wish  that  the  colonists  had  canied  out  their  threats 
and  left  the  island  to  peace  and  savagery.  But  the 
members  of  the  first  Committee  of  Seventy  were 


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promptly  given  the  offices,  the  country  was  saved, 
and  all  was  well.  In  1638,  when  that  admirable 
politician,  prototype  of  so  much  that  is  great  if  not 
good  which  has  followed  him  in  New- York's  public 
life,  Grovernor  William  Kieft,  came  over,  he  found  the 
public  buildings  in  woful  decay  and  more  signs  of 
retrogression  than  prosperity.  In  his  time  fashion 
lived  and  moved  and  had  its  being  on  Pearl  Street, 
but  in  my  early  memory  it  had  receded  to  Bowling 
Grreen  and  Grreenwich  Street.  In  relating  my  per- 
sonal experiences  of  New- York  it  is  incumbent  on 
me  to  give  the  date  lest  hearers  should  think  I  was  a 
hundred  or  more,  so  we  will  say  fifty  years  ago. 
Then  Cortlandt  Street,  where  my  famUy  resided, 
was  the  outlying  confines  of  respectability ;  indeed, 
I  have  often  to  remember  the  names  of  our  neigh- 
bors to  be  quite  sure  that  the  early  residents  of 
Cortlandt  Street  were  entirely  respectable.  There 
were  the  Strongs  and  the  Remsens,  the  Carows  and 
the  Kermits;  who  lived  on  the  same  block,  so  while 
we  were  on  the  very  rim  of  the  pail  we  had  not 
quite  slopped  over.  The  Bowling  Grreen  was  the 
Fifth  Avenue  of  the  period.  And  in  self-defense  I 
must  say  that  my  grandfather  lived  in  that  section. 
Then  we  moved  to  the  corner  of  Fourteenth  Street 
and  Broadway,  and  buUt  the  first  house  on  the  block. 
At  that  time  the  Broadway  stages  ran  no  farther 
than  the  corner  of  Thirteenth  Street,  stopping  at 
the  Corporal's,  as  it  was  called.  Now  that  stage  line 
after  extending  its  route,  if  not  its  phylacteries,  has 
passed  away  under  the  benign  influence  of  a  public- 
spirited  Common  Council  and  a  sharp  and  enter- 
prising common  carrier,  "When  I  was  a  lawyer  in 
active  practice,  though  one  of  the  younger  brethren 


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of  the  bar,  the  real  estate  agent,  James  E.  Shaw, 
applied  to  me  for  a  loan  of  $5,000  on  a  Fifth  Avenue 
corner  lot,  and  I  dismissed  him  summarily  from  the 
office  for  asking  such  an  extravagant  amount  on  so 
slight  a  secuiity,  although  he  insisted  that  the  prop- 
erty would  biing  $7,500  under  the  hammer.  Till 
quite  modem  days  none  of  the  boys  used  to  think  of 
going  farther  than  the  neighborhood  of  what  is  now 
Central  Park  to  skate.  Many  of  you  are  now  hap- 
pily dwelling  over  the  ponds  of  but  a  few  years  ago. 
And  there  was  excellent  shooting  along  the  upper 
part  of  Madison  Avenue.  What  a  ti-ee  our  sprout 
has  grown  to  be !  From  a  little  plant  of  Indian  trade, 
hai'dly  worth  the  attention  of  the  West  India  Society, 
it  has  become  the  Banyan  of  national  commerce,  on 
whose  branches  are  supported  the  mercantile  activity 
and  monetaiy  transactions  of  a  continent  of  business 
men ;  and  whose  far-reaching  roots  are  watered  and 
fertilized  by  the  sm-ging  rivers  of  American  industry 
which  pour  their  Pactolian  streams  to  Em'ope.  Our 
tree  equals  most  of  the  municipal  trees  of  the  world, 
and  ranks  little  below  the  highest  and  oldest.  From 
nothing  it  has  grown  in  two  centuries  and  a  half  to 
a  million  and  a  half  of  inhabitants.  The  modest  and 
curiously  gabled  homes  of  our  ancestors  have  been 
replaced  by  the  rows  of  Fifth  Avenue  palaces,  the 
strings  of  wampum  have  been  converted  into  the 
hundred-million  fortunes  of  which  we  now  read,  and 
the  Company's  old  stone  tavern  on  the  comer  of 
Pearl  and  Coenties  slip  has  become  the  Brimswick  of 
to-day. 

Our  sprout  has  blossomed  equally  into  the  flowers 
of  art  and  refinement,  and  aU  the  Hberalities  of 
modem  wealth.   We  have  the  Academy  of  Design 
7 


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and  the  Academy  of  Music,  the  MetropoUtan  Opera 
House  and  the  Metropolitan  Museums  of  Art  and 
of  Natural  History,  the  Astor  and  Mercantile  Libra- 
ries, the  Cooper  Institute,  innumerable  institutions 
for  the  sick  and  sulfering.  The  little  public  sheet, 
the  New- York  Gazette,  issued  by  William  Bradford 
on  October  16,  1725,  and  printed  on  a  half-sheet 
of  foolscap  paper,  has  expanded  into  the  deadly 
quintuple  which  every  Sunday  brings  terror  into 
the  New-Yorker's  household,  and  supplies  the  re- 
spectable head  of  the  family,  his  sons  and  daughters, 
with  a  variety  of  light  reading  in  the  matter  of 
murder  and  divorce  for  the  ensuing  week.  We  have 
wrenched  from  the  brow  of  Boston  its  unfounded 
claim  to  be  the  literary  center  of  the  New  World; 
for  not  only  do  our  own  writers  receive  at  last 
proper  consideration,  but  where  there  is  anything 
superior  in  New  England  it  gi-avitates  to  New- York 
as  naturally  as  a  Southern  black  to  a  hen-roost.  We 
have  even  expanded  in  jocosity.  The  earliest  joke 
on  record  is  that  of  Wouter  Van  Twiller.  It  was 
of  so  intricate  a  character  that  many  historians  have 
failed  to  appreciate  it.  A  vagrant  English  vessel, 
manned  and  commanded  by  evil-minded  officers  and 
crew,  with  the  wicked  purpose  of  trespassing  upon 
the  inherent  Dutch  prerogative  of  trading  glass 
beads  for  beaver-skins  with  the  Indians,  came  into 
the  harbor  of  New  Amsterdam.  Instead  of  making 
a  disturbance  and  unpleasantness,  the  humorous 
governor  tried  what  wit  would  do.  He  invited  the 
commander  ashore,  and  in  his  presence  fired  off 
three  cannons  to  the  honor  and  glory  of  the  Prince 
of  Orange.  The  befogged  Englishman,  with  that 
want  of  appreciation  of  the  refinements  of  American 


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Trior  which  exists  in  the  tight  Httle  island  to  the 
present  time,  brazenly  responded  by  ordering  his 
gunner  to  fiLre  off  three  cannons  to  the  honor  of  the 
English  king.  Thereupon  the  amiable  governor, 
with  a  twinkle  of  merriment  in  his  wise  little  eye, 
called  for  a  barrel  of  wine,  and  requested  all  to  par- 
take and  defiantly  drink  success  to  the  States  Gen- 
eral and  confusion  to  their  enemies.  Still  failing  to 
catch  the  point  of  the  joke,  the  fat-witted  English- 
man went  on  his  way  up  the  river  and  established  a 
trading-post ;  but  he  got  a  better  appreciation  of  the 
force  of  Dutch  humor  when  the  governor  sent  a 
vessel  after  him,  arrested  the  entire  party,  and 
brought  them  back  to  the  merry  sound  of  the 
triumphant  trumpet,  accompanied  with  much  hilari- 
ous drinking  of  strong  waters,  deprived  them  of  aU 
the  peltries  they  had  surreptitiously  traded  from  the 
Indians,  and  sent  them  back  to  England  wiser  in  the 
ways  and  wit  of  Dutchmen.  That  was  perhaps  but 
a  little  sprout  in  the  matter  of  jocosity;  but  it  has 
expanded  into  the  Puck  and  Judge  of  1886,  whose 
colored  extravagances  compel  from  the  most  sedate 
a  tribute  of  laughter ;  into  the  last  pages  of  Harper^ s 
Weekly  and  TJie  Graphic;  into  the  magnificent  car- 
toons of  Nast  and  Keppler ;  and  into  those  innumer- 
able funny  papers  which  force  the  most  hilarious  to 
shed  tears. 

Although  our  goodly  tree  has  borne  all  this  goodly 
fruit,  in  some  points  it  has  dried  up  or  turned  to  rot. 
Such  failures  are  probably  due  to  the  unhappy  influx 
of  strangers ;  for  I  take  it  to  be  a  self-evident  propo- 
sition that  all  that  is  bad  in  New-York  has  been 
brought  there  by  others.  Especially  did  our  good 
burghers  suffer  by  invasions  from  the  East  of 


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rapacious  hordes,  who  married  their  daughters  and 
appropriated  their  possessions.  The  inventors  of  the 
wooden  clock  and  the  wooden  nutmeg,  having  first 
deprived  our  ancestors  of  their  rightful  lands  on  the 
banks  of  the  Connecticut  Eiver,  and  thus  brought 
themselves  into  undesired  proximity,  could  not  leave 
them  in  the  free  enjoyment  of  their  virtues  and  to 
the  natural  growth  of  their  principles,  but  forced  all 
manner  of  what  they  called  improvements  upon 
them.  They  crowded  themselves  forward  on  every 
side,  till  in  social  life,  in  public  prominence,  and, 
above  aU,  in  politics,  the  old  residents  of  New- York 
have  been  pushed  into  the  background  and  out  of 
sight.  The  inevitable  consequence  is  that  social  life, 
public  happiness,  and  politics  have  degenerated.  In 
the  matter  of  simple  honesty,  it  may  be  doubted 
whether  the  position  is  better,  and  when  we  think 
of  the  late  exploits  of  the  American  colony  of 
bankers  in  Canada,  the  skillful  watering  of  stocks 
and  shearing  of  lambs  in  Wall  Street,  the  reputa- 
tions of  our  public  officials,  the  curious  methods  of 
purveying  railroads,  and  the  brilliant  operations  of 
the  Grrants  and  Wards  of  finance,  it  would  seem  that 
if  our  sprout  has  grown  into  a  tree  at  aU,  the  tree 
belongs  to  the  deadly  family  of  the  Upas.  A  care- 
ful count  of  the  bu'thplace  of  city  officials,  made 
some  years  ago,  showed  that  there  was  not  two  per 
cent,  of  native  New-Yorkers  in  office. 

I  have  said  that  Grovernor  William  Kieft  was  our 
first  politician,  but  his  method  has  been  improved 
upon  by  those  who  came  after  him,  and  he  is  the  one 
case  of  Dutch  example  which  ought  to  have  been 
avoided.  Being  required  by  the  law  to  have  a  coun- 
cil, he  appointed  a  council  of  one,  and  as  it  was 


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apparent  that  this  might  lead  to  deadlock  if  there 
was  a  tie  vote,  and  that  injury  might  result  to  the 
pubHc  service,  he  reserved  two  votes  to  himself, 
while  he  allowed  only  one  to  his  council.  He  was 
the  fii'st  of  the  bosses  who  have  followed  with  such 
remarkable  regularity,  the  only  difference  beiug  that 
they  reserved  aU  the  votes  to  themselves.  The  city 
of  New- York  has  gi'own  in  wealth,  in  power,  in  size, 
in  art,  in  literature,  ia  population,  but  it  has  not 
increased  in  pubhc  spirit.  We  have  become  a  con- 
glomerate or  mosaic  of  bits  from  aU  portions  of  the 
habitable  globe.  We  have  invited  all  those  who  are 
weary  and  heavy-laden  to  come  unto  us,  and  they 
have  not  only  come  unto  us,  but  they  have  ruled 
over  us,  tiU  there  is  little  of  the  original  Holland  left 
in  our  pubhc  composition.  We  have  the  G-entile  and 
the  Jew,  the  heathen  and  the  Christian,  exiles  from 
the  central  Flowery  Kingdom,  from  the  shores  of 
Africa,  from  the  wilds  of  Eussia,  from  the  confines 
of  Austria,  from  France  and  Germany,  and  occasion- 
ally a  few  from  Ireland ;  the  oppressed  of  the  world 
have  sought  our  shores,  and  have  concentrated  in 
this  cosmopohtan  city.  It  is  the  one  pressing  duty 
of  our  native-bom  to  take  an  interest  in  molding 
events,  to  claim  a  moderate  share,  at  least,  in  the 
government  of  the  great  city  which  fortune  has 
given  to  them,  in  improving  public  sentiment  and 
arousiag  pubhc  spirit.  The  formation  of  this  So- 
ciety is  a  favorable  augury  that  as  the  Dutch  are 
said  to  have  once  conquered  Holland  of  old,  so  the 
New-Yorkers  have  at  last  resolved  to  reconquer 
New  Amsterdam. 


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The  Rapalje  cup  was  then  passed  around. 

The  first  European  settler  on  Long  Island  was 
Greorge  Janse  de  Rapelje,  who  settled  at  the  Waal- 
hocht  (curve  of  the  basin  or  bay),  on  what  are  now 
known  as  the  United  States  Naval  Hospital  G-rounds. 
The  first  white  child  born  in  the  New  Netherlands 
was  his  daughter,  Sarah,  on  June  9,  1625 ;  in  June, 
1642,  she  was  married  to  Hans  Hanse  Bergen,  by 
whom  she  had  six  children.  Her  first  husband  died, 
and  she  afterward  married  Tunis  Guisbertse  Bogart ; 
by  him  she  also  had  six  children.  The  following 
inscriptions  are  engraved  on  the  silver  tankard, 
which  was  presented  to  her  by  her  first  husband  on 
their  marriage.  This  tankard  is  now  in  possession 
of  the  Johnson  family  in  Brooklyn. 

ON  THE  OUTEK  SIDE. 

"Hout  daer,jouck  vrouw  die  ick  bemin,  en  anders  geen, 
Baer  myn  trouw,  my  hart,  en  sin,  naest  Godt  alleen.^^ 

ON  THE  INSIDE. 

X 

"  Siet  mi  jre  Schepper,  vijt  vlees  en  been, 
Schept  two  tot  eenP 

Translation  by  Hon.  Martin  Kalbfleisch,  of  Brook- 
lyn. 

OUTSIDE. 

"  Young  woman,  the  only  one  I  love,  next  to  God, 
receive  my  confidence  and  heart." 

INSIDE. 

"Behold  the  Creator  of  flesh  and  blood  created  two 
out  of  one." 

The  eighth  toast  was  responded  to  as  follows : 


SPEECH 

OF 

MR.  WILLIAM  C.  DE  WITT,  OF  BROOKLYN. 

[At  the  point  of  the  dais  where  Mr.  De  Witt  was  seated  a 
large  engraving  of  the  Grand  Pensionary  John  De  Witt 
hung  upon  the  wall,  and  a  long  shot-g^in  and  other  arms 
and  accoutrements  carried  by  members  of  the  family  during 
the  French  war  and  in  the  battles  of  the  Revolution  were 
suspended  in  front  of  a  mirror.] 

Mr.  Be  Witt  said  : 

I AM  imbued  with  a  sentiment  too  delicate  for 
expression  by  the  thoughtful  courtesy  of  the 
committee  in  decorating  the  walls  at  this  end  of 
the  hall  with  the  portrait  of  an  illustrious  Hollander 
and  the  arms  and  trophies  of  his  kindred,  and  thus 
filling  me  with  the  pleasantest  recollections  of  the 
dead,  toward  whom,  however  far-stretched  the  tie 
of  consanguinity,  I  shall  ever  strive  to  bear,  without 
reproach,  the  love  and  devotion  of  a  son. 

61 


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Very  much  needed,  Mr.  President,  is  the  Society 
which  you  have  formed.  The  Dutch,  although  the 
founders  and  builders  of  this  State,  are  gi-adually 
being  swallowed  up  and  lost  in  the  gi-eat  tides  of 
population  which  have  poured  in  upon  them  from 
other  lands.  Among  the  several  millions  in  the 
State  of  New- York,  we  have  fallen  into  a  small 
minority.  We  are  getting  few  and  far  between. 
We  are  being  jostled  from  the  stools  of  precedence 
and  power  in  the  old  households.  We  are  rapidly 
becoming  as  strangers  in  the  land  of  our  fathers. 
It  is  necessary,  therefore,  that  we  should  unite  in 
societies  such  as  you  have  formed,  in  order  that  we 
may  maintain  om-  identity,  uphold  our  rights,  and 
preserve  the  memory  of  our  ancestors. 

Nor  will  the  task  of  forming  and  supporting  such 
a  Society  in  such  a  cause  be  easy.  The  Dutch  are 
an  unostentatious  people.  They  are  averse  by  natm-e 
to  celebrating  themselves.  Deeds  and  not  words  are 
the  chief  objects  of  their  respect  and  exertion.  So 
prevalent  is  this  characteristic  that  we  ascribe  to  our 
fatherland,  more  than  to  any  other  country,  the 
quality  of  silence  in  contrast  with  boastfulness  and 
self-assertion.  Silent  is  the  figm"e  of  Holland  in 
history;  silent  her  emergence  from  the  sea;  silent 
the  growth  of  her  free  institutions,  embracing,  as 
we  have  been  told,  the  model  of  our  Declaration 
of  Independence  and  of  our  confederated  system; 
silent  her  acquisition  of  trade  with  India  and  her 
long  commercial  supremacy  upon  the  ocean,  except 
when  her  hostile  guns  were  heard  in  the  streets  of 
London ;  silent  her  discovery  and  settlement  of  this 
State,  with  the  Half  Moon  moving  up  the  noiseless 
waters  of  the  Hudson,  amid  scenery  rivaling  in 


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primal  nature  the  castellated  banks  of  the  Rhine ; 
and  sUent,  too,  the  early  Knickerbockers  modestly 
laying  the  foundations  in  virtue  and  sound  law  of 
this  magnificent  triple  city,  which,  crowning  the 
shores  of  our  great  bay,  will,  without  the  aid  of 
boastful  oratory,  remain  forever  the  monumental 
Plymouth  Rock  of  the  Dutch. 

A  Dutchman  looks  upon  his  virtues  as  upon  his 
roses, — safe  when  held  within  their  natural  envu'on- 
ments,  half  lost  when  blown  and  given  to  the  winds. 
To  him  there  is  a  world  of  suggestive  truth  in  the 
lines, 

"  The  shallows  munnur, 
But  the  deeps  are  dumb." 

But  when  a  race  is  being  outnumbered  and  overrun 
in  its  own  land ;  when  its  rightful  patrimony  is  being 
taken  away ;  when  its  ancestral  records  are  fading, — 
this  sentiment  of  modesty  and  silence  ceases  to  be  a 
vii"tue,  and  the  times  demand  that  the  men  of  the 
Netherlands  should  assert  and  support  themselves. 
Every  devoted  son  of  Holland  will  therefore  lend  his 
sympathy  and  assistance  to  the  needed  and  appro- 
priate enterprise  in  behalf  of  which  this  Society  has 
been  formed ;  and  may  success  attend  you  at  every 
step. 

Respecting  the  liberty  of  conscience,  to  which 
sentiment  I  am  assigned  to  speak,  it  is  no  longer 
necessaiy  to  discuss  its  theological  relations.  No- 
body but  a  bigot  or  a  fool,  in  this  latter  part  of  the 
nineteenth  century,  disputes  the  right  of  every  man 
to  worship  God  according  to  his  own  convictions; 
and  whatever  trials  this  principle  may  have  under- 
gone in  the  past,  it  is  now  so  deeply  ingrafted  in  oui- 
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constitutional  law  and  upon  the  minds  and  hearts 
of  our  people  that  it  is  beyond  the  reach  of  danger- 
ous assault. 

But  the  subject  has  an  infinitely  wider  range. 
We  have  that  within  us  by  which  we  discern  the 
spiritual  laws  of  the  moral  and  material  universe, 
and  this  I  call  conscience.  Conscience  is  the  eye  of 
the  soul,  through  which  we  behold  the  attributes  of 
the  Creator.  Conscience  is  the  inner  light  unfolding 
the  moral  law  to  our  understanding.  Not  an  act  in 
our  daily  lives,  not  a  prompting  of  our  hearts,  not  a 
thought  in  our  minds,  escapes,  in  the  first  instance, 
the  inspection  and  judgment  of  this  divinity.  It 
distinguishes  for  us  truth  from  falsehood,  virtue 
from  vice,  beauty  from  ugliness,  hoUness  from  sia, 
nobility  from  meanness,  charity  from  malice,  and 
love  from  hatred.  And  Groethe  has  weU  said,  if  some 
day  this  inner  light  shall  come  out  from  within  us, 
we  shall  no  longer  require  any  other.  It  is  the  lamp 
of  reason,  by  which  human  laws  are  observed  and 
tested.  It  teaches  what  is  right  and  what  is  wrong, 
upholds  justice  and  abhors  oppression,  maintains 
the  rights  of  person,  of  property,  and  of  reputation ; 
and  as  it  gathers  enlightenment  it  becomes  the  re- 
vivifying source  of  progi-essive  civilization.  Nor  am 
I  able  to  distinguish  the  power  by  which  we  perceive 
and  comprehend  the  moral  law  from  the  power  by 
which  we  detect  and  understand  the  physical  laws  of 
the  universe.  It  is  the  same  faculty  and  may  bear 
the  same  name.  Conscience,  therefore,  is  that  intel- 
lectual perception  by  which  the  wide-ranging  achieve- 
ments of  science  are  made  and  appreciated.  The 
same  inner  light  which  reveals  to  us  the  beauties  of 
Christianity  discloses  to  our  understandiag  the  mys- 


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teries  of  the  universe.  What  a  wonderful  faculty  is 
this  of  man!  It  apprehends  divinity,  it  perceives 
all  the  truths  of  the  moral  and  civil  law,  it  analyzes 
the  globe,  weighs  and  measures  the  sun,  defines  the 
orbits  of  the  planets,  intelligently  outlines  the  locality 
and  motion  of  the  stars,  and  "drags  up  drowned 
honors"  from  the  far-off  deeps  of  the  sidereal 
heavens. 

Indeed,  such  is  now  the  scope  and  potentiahty  of 
the  human  conscience  that  it  well-nigh  demonstrates 
by  itseK  an  affinity  and  kindredship  between  man 
and  the  Maker  of  aU  things.  If  I  find  a  parchment 
of  Sanscrit  in  the  desert,  which  at  first  sight  is  as 
unintelligible  to  me  as  the  hieroglyphics  on  a  tea- 
chest,  and  by  inspection  at  length  catch  the  clew, 
and,  making  the  interpretation,  find  a  communication 
clear  and  plain  to  my  mind,  I  know  at  once  that  I 
am  kindred  to  its  author.  And  so  this  quality  of 
conscience,  this  capacity  to  discover,  perceive,  and 
appreciate  all  the  laws,  works,  and  mysteries  of  the 
Creator,  moral  and  physical,  and  to  find  in  them  a 
perfect  harmony  and  perpetual  fountains  of  knowl- 
edge, inherently  presents  the  fatherhood  of  the 
Supreme  Being,  or  at  least  estabUshes  direct  con- 
nections, fraught  with  something  like  kindredship, 
between  the  finite  being  and  the  inscrutable  Master 
of  all  life  and  law.  With  this  fuU  conception  of  the 
conscience  of  the  mind,  who  will  deny  it  hberty? 
Man's  actions,  not  his  thoughts,  are  amenable  to 
human  laws.  To  reason,  to  think,  to  conceive,  ac- 
cording to  our  capacity,  are  processes  with  which 
government  ought  not  and  cannot  interfere.  And, 
further  still,  so  long  as  a  man  acts  according  to  the 
dictates  of  his  conscience  without  interfering  with 


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any  right  of  his  fellow-man,  he  should  not  be  called 
in  question.  This  is  a  distinguished  principle  with 
the  Dutch.  They  have  left  its  impress  upon  this 
community,  and  to  it  we  owe  the  cosmopolitan  char- 
acter of  the  city  of  New- York.  The  hospitality 
which  welcomes  the  stranger  from  every  land ;  the 
charity  to  which  a  worthy  object  never  appeals  in 
vain ;  the  hatred  of  the  intermeddler  and  the  absence 
of  intrusion  upon  the  sanctity  of  domestic  life;  in 
a  word,  the  freedom  and  happiness  of  the  people  of 
this  city  are  due  in  great  measure  to  that  wide  hb- 
erty  of  conscience  inherited  from  its  Dutch  founders.  ' 
And  as  we  turn  our  eyes  toward  the  fatherland  there 
arises  before  us,  over  the  sea  of  time,  as  over  the 
broad  Atlantic,  a  country  which  for  hundreds  of 
years  has  been  the  home  of  the  exile  of  whatsoever 
faith,  religious  or  political ;  where  intense  piety  goes 
hand  in  hand  with  liberty  of  thought;  where  Jew 
and  G-entile,  Catholic  and  Protestant,  may  enjoy 
equally  their  respective  religions,  and  where  true 
freedom  is  so  obvious  that  we  hail  our  mother  coun- 
try at  sight  as  a  land  of  refuge  and  of  benediction 
for  all  mankind. 

Not  vast  is  the  empire  of  our  dear  old  fatherland, 
nor  marked  by  many  rivers,  lofty  mountains,  and 
wide  expanding  plains.  But  the  foimtains  of  her 
social  and  political  philosophy  have  sent  forth 
mighty  currents,  which,  overleaping  her  physical 
confines,  have  poured  refreshing  streams  of  Ught 
and  life  into  every  quarter  of  the  civilized  globe. 


ARroiypr.  e  oiERsrAOT 


DECORATIONS. 


HE  walls  of  the  dining-room  were  decorated  by 


J-  Mr.  Charles  A.  Vanderhoof,  who  is  a  member  of 
the  Society,  and  contained  gi'oupings  of  some  fifty 
sketches  of  Holland  scenes,  by  the  eminent  artist 
KiTiseman  Van  Elten,  who  also  sent  several  charm- 
ing oil-paintings.  Among  them  "  Holland  Sand 
Dunes,"  "Winter  Landscape  in  Holland,"  "Dutch 
Windmnis,"  "VOlage  of  Vaassen,  Celderland,"  and 
"  Huts  in  the  Heather  " ;  also  some  delicate  etchings 
by  Mr.  Vanderhoof  himself.  An  especially  curious 
and  beautiful  pictui'e,  kindly  lent,  among  others,  by 
Professor  P.  H.  Vanderweyde,  was  "  The  Vegetable 
Market  in  Amsterdam,  by  Candle  and  Moonlight," 
by  Van  Schendel. 

A  large  oil-painting,  "A  Dutch  "Woman  reading 
the  Bible,"  by  Mr.  C.  Y.  Turner,  was  greatly  ad- 
mired; it  was  apostrophized  extemporaneously  by 
Mr.  Depew,  and  a  reproduction  of  it  appears  facing 
his  speech ;  it  was  painted  in  Holland  ia  1880 ;  the 
Bible  represented  in  the  picture,  was  also  loaned  by 
Mr.  Turner ;  it  was  printed  ia  Amsterdam  ia  1643. 


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Mr.  Turner  contributed  a  copy  of  a  "Head,  by- 
Rembrandt." 

The  flags  of  the  Netherlands  and  of  the  United 
States  of  America  were  draped  together  over  Presi- 
dent Van  Vorst's  chair,  with  a  fac-simile  of  the 
famous  emblem,  "  The  Beggars'  Sack,"  bearing  on  its 
face  the  historical  dates  1566  (when  it  was  adopted 
as  a  badge  by  the  Hollanders  who  rebelled  against 
the  Spanish  misrule),  1609  (when  the  Dutch  settled 
this  country),  and  1885  (the  date  of  the  formation  of 
this  Holland  Society) ;  also  the  ancient  motto,  ^^Amor 
patrice  vincitP  This,  in  the  form  of  the  face  of  the 
medal  which  was  adopted  by  the  Dutch  rebels,  was 
worn  by  William  the  Silent  at  the  time  of  his  assas- 
sination. Motley  says  that  the  oath  taken  by  the 
so-called  "  Beggars  "  read  to  the  effect : 

"  By  this  salt, 
By  this  bread, 
By  this  wallet,  we  swear 
These  beggars  ne'er  will  change 
Tho'  all  the  world  stare." 


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The  following  poem,  never  before  published,  writ- 
ten by  Mrs.  Amelia  E.  Barr,  author  of  "Jan  Vedder's 
"Wife,"  is  kindly  contributed  to  this  volume  by  that 
lady. 

"THE  BEGGAES  OF  THE  SEA." 

We  are  the  "Beggars  of  the  Sea," 
Strong,  gray  Beggars  from  Zealand  we; 
"We  are  fighting  for  Liberty! 

Heave  ho!  Rip  the  brown  saUs  free! 

Hardy  sons  of  old  Zierikzee, 

Fed  on  the  breath  of  the  fresh  North  Sea, 

Beggars  are  kings,  if  free  they  be: 

Heave  ho!  Rip  the  brown  sails  free! 

"  True  to  the  wallet ! "  whatever  betide ; 
"  Long  live  the  Grueux ! "  the  sea  will  provide 
Graves  for  the  enemy,  deep  and  wide : 
Heave  ho !  Rip  the  brown  sails  free ! 

"  Beggars,"  but  not  from  the  Spaniard's  hand ; 
"  Beggars  under  the  Cross  "  we  stand ; 
"Beggars"  for  love  of  the  Fatherland! 

Heave  ho !  Rip  the  brown  sails  free ! 

Now,  if  the  Spaniard  comes  our  way, 
"What  shall  we  give  him.  Beggars  gray! 
Grive  him  a  moment  to  kneel  and  pray ! 
Heave  ho !  Rip  the  brown  sails  free ! 


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A  picture  of  the  old  Onderdonk  homestead  at 
Flower  Hill,  Manhasset,  L.  I,,  built  in  1706  by  An- 
drew Onderdonk,  together  with  an  ancient  small  hair 
trunk  brought  from  Holland  and  grown  bald  in  the 
service  of  holding  papers,  were  contributed  by  W. 
M.  Onderdonk,  Esq.,  his  great-great-grandson,  who 
now  occupies  the  same  house. 

Mr.  Adrian  Van  Sinderen,  Vice-President  of  the 
Society  for  Brooklyn,  drank  from  a  silver  tankard 
having  a  Luther  medal,  date,  1717,  set  in  the  lid,  and 
brought  here  by  his  ancestor,  Rev.  Ulpianus  Van 
Sinderen. 

Dr.  Gerardus  H.  Wynkoop  sent  the  Wynkoop 
Wapen,  or  coat  of  arms,  on  porcelain. 

Mr.  Bartow  W.  Van  Voorhis  showed  an  ancient 
corkscrew  with  engraved  sUver  case  and  handle, 
probably  three  hundred  years  old,  and  that  must 
have  opened  countless  bottles. 

A  very  interesting  exhibit  fi'om  Mr.  Henry  S.  Van 
Beuren  was  a  Bible  printed  in  Spanish  in  Amster- 
dam, anno  5486  (Hebrew  calendar),  to  aid  in  con- 
verting the  Spaniards  to  Protestantism. 

Eight  quaint  old  blue  Holland  tiles  from  the  col- 
lection of  Mr.  Wm.  M.  Hoes,  hung  on  the  wall.  Mr. 
Hoes  also  contributed  a  portrait  of  his  kinsman, 
Martin  Van  Bui-en,  painted  by  Henry  Inman. 

A  portrait  of  Oliver  Van  Noort,  the  first  Dutch 
navigator  who  sailed  around  the  world,  was  con- 
tributed by  his  hneal  descendant,  Hon.  Greo.  M.  Van 


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Nort,  in  a  cm-ious  old  engi'aving  with  tlie  portraits  of 
Magelhans,  Schouten,  Francis  Drake,  famous  circum- 
navigators,  A  reproduction  of  it  is  inserted  here. 

Also  the  Van  Noort  coat  of  arms,  which  ornamented 
the  dining-hall  that  evening,  and  which  is  described 
as  follows  (with  the  coats  of  arms  of  Columbus  and 
of  de  Gamma),  ia  the 

'■^  Jurisprudentia  Heroica  de  Jure  Belgarum  circa 
Nohilitatem  et  Insignia  cum  Crratia  et  privilegio  ad 
novennium  Alherti  et  Isabella.  JEmiilgatmi  14  De- 
cemhri,  1616."    [At  page  113.] 

"  Van  Nooet  :  d'azur  a  une  f asse  ondee  flottee 
d'argent  en  forme  de  riviere,  accostee  de  deux  estoiles 
d'or ;  le  globe  ten'aquee  en  cimier  avee  un  vaisseau 
sur  ce  globe,  I'ecu  enveloppe  d'un  gi'and  manteau 
d'azur  seme  d'estoiles  d'or." 

With  the  following  relation  at  page  106 : 

"Eundem  honorem  promivitus  fuit,  &  globum 
terrestrem  cimmem  loco-habuit  Ohverius  van  Noort, 
quondam  classis  Batavica  Prgefectus  generalis,  qui 
tractum  Magellanicum  primus  trajecit,  totimique 
orbem  circumnavigavit  ut  videre  est  ia  eju  Sepultura 
in  Ecclesia  de  Schoonhoven  in  Hollandia  cum  Epi- 
taphio,  quod  sic  sonat : 

"  '  EQer  met  den  edelen  Herre  Olivier  Van  Noort  in  syn  leven 
Admirael  ende  Capiteyn  generael  over  de  urste  vlote,  die  nyt 
dese  Nederlanden  door  de  Straete  Magellanes  de  gheheele  wereldt 
heest  omseylt,  Sterst  den  22  Februarii,  1627. 

"  'Hie  iUe  est  totum  velis  qui  circuit  orbem  h  Magellam  Quartus 
Oliverius.' " 

Mr.  Geo.  G.  De  Witt,  Jr.,  exhibited  a  very  fine  old 
engraviug,  by  Visscher,  of  John  De  Witt,  the  Grand 
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Pensionary  of  Holland  from  1652  to  1672,  which  is 
here  reproduced. 

Also  a  Dutch  musket  about  eight  feet  long,  made 
at  Amsterdam  in  the  XVIth  century,  together  with 
an  old  powder-horn,  bullet^pouch,  and  canteen,  the 
latter  made  of  rawhide.  These  relics  were  once  the 
property  of  Capt.  Peter  De  Witt,  who  was  bom  at 
Kingston,  N.  Y.,  in  1722.  He  was  the  captain  of  a 
militia  company  in  Kingston,  and  served  in  the 
French  war. 

Upon  the  powder-horn  is  cut  the  following  quaint 
inscription : 

"  Capt.  Peter  De  Witt,  His  horn,  Oct.  27, 1758.  At  Ticonderoga 
July  ye  8th  there  we  did  quit  the  field.  But  at  Cateroqua  Sept. 
8th  we  made  the  French  dogs  yield." 

Mr.  Lambert  Suydam  loaned  several  old  deeds  in 
fine  preservation. 

One,  a  deed  in  Dutch,  for  land  in  Brooklyn,  L.  I., 
dated  May  11,  1703 ;  also  several  deeds  for  slaves,  a 
copy  of  one  of  which,  dated  July  31,  1735,  from 
Gertruyda  Winkler  to  his  ancestor  Lambert  Suydam, 
is  here  given: 

"  ItnobJ  all  St^m  by  thefe  prefents,  That  I,  Gertruida 
Winkler  of  City  of  New  York,  For  and  in  Confideration 
of  the  Sum  of  fourty  and  five  Pounds  current  money  of 
the  Province  of  Nezv  York  to  me  in  Hand  paid,  at  and 
before  the  Enfealing  and  Delivery  of  thefe  Prefents,  by 
Lambert  Suydam  of  the  Ifia7id  of  Naffau,  in  Kings  County, 
Yoman,  the  Receipt  whereof  I  do  hereby  acknowledge, 
and  my  Self  to  be  there-with  fully  Satiffied  &  Paid,  and 
thereof,  and  every  Part  thereof  do  hereby  Acquit  and 
Difcharge  the  faid  Lambert  Suydam,  his  Executors,  Ad- 


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miniftrators  and  Afligns,  have  Granted,  Bargained  and 
Sold,  and  by  thefe  Prefents  do  fully,  clearly  and  abfo- 
lutely  Grant,  Bargain,  Sell  and  Releafe  unto  the  faid 
Lambert  Suydam  one  negro  Boy  Jlave  named  George,  aged 
about  fifteen  years. 

"To  Have  and  to  Hold  the  faid  Negro  Slave  unto  him 
the  faid  Lambert  Suydam,  his  Executors,  Adminiftrators 
and  AlTigns  for  ever.  And  I  the  faid  Gertruyda  Winkler 
for  my  Self,  my  Executors,  Adminiftrators  and  Affigns 
do  Covenant,  Promife  and  Grant  to  and  with  the  faid 
Lambert  Suydam,  Executors,  Adminiftrators  and  Affigns, 
to  Warrant  and  Defend  the  Sale  of  the  above-named 
Negro  George  againft  all  Perfons  whatfoever.  In  Witnefs 
whereof  I  have  hereunto  fet  my  Hand  and  Seal  this 
thirty -firjl  Day  of  July,  Anno  Dfftnini  One  Thoufand 
Seven  Hundred  and  thirty -five. 

"  Sealed  and  Delivered  in 
the  Prefence  of 
"  Charles  Le  Roux. 

"  Gertruyda  van  Kin/wilder, 
"  Weduwe  van  Hexman  Winkler." 

Mr.  Lawrence  Vander  Veer,  of  Rocky  Hill,  N.  J., 
exhibited  a  New  Testament  and  Psalms,  together 
with  Catechism,  published  at  Dordrecht  in  1778, 
bound  in  leather,  with  silver  clasps  and  handles ; 
also  a  Psalm-book  published  at  Amsterdam  in  1752. 
These  volumes  have  been  in  his  family  ever  since. 

Mr.  Robert  "W.  Van  Boskerck  contributed  two 
paintings  of  scenes  in  Holland,  and  a  sketch.  The 
larger  of  the  paintings,  a  late  afternoon  effect,  repre- 
senting a  windmill  and  a  narrow  canal,  bordered  by 
trees ;  this  picture  is  fine  in  sentiment  and  pure  in 


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color.  The  smaller  picture,  representing  a  stretch  of 
meadow  with  sheep  near  the  edge  of  a  wood,  was  a 
characteristic  bit  of  Holland,  well  painted. 

Mr.  William  L.  Brower  contributed  a  framed  metal 
plate,  a  relic  of  the  North  Dutch  Church. 

When  the  church  at  the  comer  of  William  and 
Fulton  Streets,  N.  Y.,  was  taken  down  in  the  summer 
of  1875,  this  interesting  relic  was  brought  to  light. 

Under  the  pillar  which  supported  the  gallery, 
and  nearest  the  pulpit,  was  found  a  metallic  plate, 
twelve  inches  square,  a  fac-simile  of  which  is  given 
below : 


xais  Church  •wassuhts-^  thb  ^ommEOAasas 

OF  THE  fLEFDHMED^rROTESIAHTSTTTCH  IN" 

Elders  jdeacons 

^TEbMaSSCBAIX  I^AAn^EOSEtCEXT. 

casas  *  BacEin  AiuiaEw  Kab.s  cHaiS 


^-  iniESTED  IlJ  l^SPENTEaAHn^aimoiDB. 

TOE  EIHST  StDIJEWAJIATO  IUI.T2  J/6y  ST 
fflS  MCDBirS.  R  OSEUEiT  SES  £  IDE  S  . 


  )'I7TCH 

t^NQHEOA.TI0W  THE  BETT"jfiJlCHIBA,U)^AiriIE  \J^4 
|EACB'BB-WITKEBriTHT3  SACKED  I^XACH 
5ho  HOiy  JaiFlS  ATO  HBAUEHI/rGRAaB 


F.  Hopkinson  Smith  kindly  loaned  foui-  water- 
color  sketches,  his  own  work:  "A  Hazy  Morning, 
Dordrecht,"  "Waiting  for  the  Ferry,"  "Dordi'echt, 




Vdrian  Hf.geman  was  l>om,  New-York  City,  September  15,  1773;  died,  July  21,  1826.  AUliniiaii  i.l  ,Ncw-Yorli  City, 
1805-1808;  Member»f  AITembly  from  New-York  City,  1810;  appointed  Judge  of  Marine  Court  of  New-York,  rcbriiary  13, 
1821 ;  appointed  Chief  Juftice,  April  10.  1823.  Lineal  defcendant  of  Adriaen  Heceman,  born  in  Amfterd.im,  Holland, 
February,  1 599,  who  came  to  Nieue  Amfterdam,  1640;  wasSchout  of  Breucklen,  1661  ;  Schoutof  the  "Five  Dutch  Towns.' 
1661-1663;  Delegate  to  Convention,  1664;  died  April,  1672.  at  Flatbufh  on  his  farm  of  1 18  Acres,  bought  April  15,  1661. 


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Holland,"  "  Amsterdam."  Picturesque  and  effective ; 
quiet  and  gray  in  tone. 

Also  a  pastel  of  a  Dutch  Bui-gomaster's  wife,  by 
Kammerer,  1789.  An  admirable  portrait  of  a  lady 
of  refined  appearance  and  artistic  attii'e. 

Also  an  old  brass  milk-can,  that  was  probably 
used  to  send  around  milk  in  the  Ark,  or  else  to  hold 
wine  for  Noah.  Such  milk-cans  are  earned,  one  on 
each  side,  chained  to  a  yoke  over  the  shoulders,  and 
are  to  be  seen  about  Dordrecht  and  vicinity;  this 
one  was  used  as  a  flower- vase  at  our  dinner. 

Mr.  W.  A.  Ogden  Hegeman  contributed  two  frames 
of  ancient  law-papers,  framed  so  as  to  show  both  sides 
of  the  documents. 

And  Mr.  E.  W.  Van  Voorhis  exhibited  two  copies 
in  Dutch  of  the  New  Testament,  bound  with  the 
Psalms  of  David  set  to  music,  and  the  Catechism, 
bound  in  leather,  with  silver  clasps.  One,  dated 
Amsterdam,  1728,  was  the  property  of  Altje  Eyder, 
wife  of  Samuel  Grerritson,  of  Gravesend,  L.  I.,  and 
afterward  the  property  of  her  daughter,  Jane  Grerrit- 
son, who  married  Lom*ens  Voorhees,  of  Flatbush, 
L.  I.,  and  contains  on  its  fly-leaves  records  of  births 
and  marriages  of  the  Gerritson  and  Voorhees  fam- 
ilies. The  other,  similarly  bound  and  clasped,  and  of 
the  same  size,  belonged  to  Joris  Rapalje,  and  states 
in  Dutch  on  a  fly-leaf  that  it  was  given  to  him  by  his 
grandmother  Rapalje  in  1752 ;  the  title-page  is  dated 
Dordrecht,  1746,  and  the  fly-leaves  contain  records  of 
bu"ths  and  deaths  of  members  of  the  Rapalje  family. 

Upon  all  of  which  memorable  dinner,  speeches, 
and  exhibits  The  HoUand  Society  puts  its  seal. 


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GENTLEMEN  OTHER  THAN  MEMBERS  OF  THE 
SOCIETY  PRESENT  AT  DINNER. 


James  Muhlexbekg  Bailey. 
Cornelius  V.  Banta. 
C.  A.  Benton. 

Judge  Heney  "W,  BooKSTA^^EE, 
Ira  D.  Bursley. 
Herman  Cazaux. 
E.  Beach  Crowell. 
Jajmes  R.  Ctjming. 
Ex-Chief  Justice  Charles  P. 

Daly, 
Charles  W.  Darling. 
John  W.  Davis. 
Henry  Spingler  Davis. 
M.  C.  V.  B.  Davis. 
John  W.  A.  Davis. 
Theodore  De  Witt. 
William  C.  De  Witt. 
Elijah  Du  Bois. 
Bryce  Gray,  Jr. 
Charles  Isaac  Hldson. 
Richard  P.  Lounsbery. 
David  E.  Meeker. 
Edward  B.  Merrill. 
Joaquin  Miller. 
Colonel  T.  Bailey  Myers. 

Mark 


William  B.  Palen. 
John  R.  Planten, 

Consul-General  of  the  Netherlands. 

Captain  Wheeler  Powell. 
F.  E.  F.  Randolph. 
Dr.  E.  Guernsey  Rankin. 
Charles  L.  Rickerson. 
Rear-Admiral  A.  C.  Rhind, 

U.  S.  N. 
E.  A.  Schultze. 
Frank  Hopktnson  Smith. 
Milford  B.  Streeter. 
W.  H.  H.  Stryker. 
William  J.  Van  Arsdale. 
George  G.  Van  Blarcom. 
William  L,  Vandervoort. 
P.  H.  Vander  Weyde. 
Samuel  Clinton  Van  Dusen. 
Kruseman  Van  Elten. 
William  C.  Van  Elten. 
William  C.  Van  Lennep. 
Colonel  Nicholas  Van  Slyck. 
William  W.  Van  Valzah,M.D. 
J.  A.  Van  Winkle. 
Wn.LTAM  Hull  Wickham. 
Williams. 

ROELKER. 


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THE  HOLLAND  SOCIETY. 


OFFICERS. 

1885-1886. 

President 
Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst. 

Vice-Presidents. 

ALBANY. 

Albert  Vander  Veer,  M.  D. 

brookltn. 
Adrian  Van  Sestderen. 

eindsesook. 
August  W.  Wynkoop. 

KINGSTON. 

Alphonso  Trotipbour  Clearwater. 

NEW-YORK  CITY. 

Robert  Barnwell  Roosevelt. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer. 
George  West  Van  Siclen. 

Secretary's  address,  146  Broadway,  New- York. 


COMMITTEES. 

1885. 


Committee  on  Finance. 
George  G.  De  Witt,  Jr. 
George  W.  Van  Slyck. 
Abraham  Van  Santvoord. 


Committee  on  Genealogy. 
George  M.  Van  Hoesen. 
Aaron  J.  Vanderpoel. 
David  Van  Nostrand. 


Committee  on  History  and  Tradition, 
The  Rev.  Dr.  van  Dyke,  Jr. 

Robert  B.  Roosevelt. 

Lucas  L.  Van  Allen. 


TRUSTEES. 

1885. 


George  G.  De  Witt,  Jr. 
W.  A.  Ogden  Hegeman. 
WiLUAii  M.  Hoes. 
Wilhelmus  Mynderse. 
Robert  B.  Roosevelt. 
Lucas  L.  Van  Allen. 
Aaron  J.  Vanderpoel. 
Hersl^n  W.  Vanderpoel. 
Henry  S.  Vanduzer. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  van  Dyke,  Jr. 
George  M.  Van  Hoesen. 
David  Van  Nostrand. 
Abraham  Van  Santvookd. 
George  W.  Van  Siclen. 
George  W.  Van  Slyck. 
Philip  Van  Volkenburgh,  Jr. 
Hooper  C.  Van  Vorst. 
Edgar  B.  Van  Winkle. 
Benjamin  F.  Vosburgh,  M.  D. 
Jacob  Wendell. 


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MEMBERS  OF  THE  HOLLAND  SOCIETY, 


January  8,  1886. 


The  Holland  Society  is  composed  of  gentlemen  who  are 
descended  in  the  male  line  from  Dutchmen  who  settled  in 
America  before  the  Eevolution. 

This  includes  descendants  of  other  former  nationalities 
whose  ancestors  had  found  refuge  and  a  home  in  Holland 
and  who  came  here  speaking  Dutch  as  their  native  tongue. 

Thomas  F.  Bayard  Washington,  D.  C. 

Gerard  Beekman  New- York  City. 

Henry  Rutgers  Beekman   "  " 

J.  William  Beekman   .        "  " 

James  Bleecker   "  " 

Tunis  Gr.  Bergen  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

John  Bogart   New- York  City. 

Abraham  Bogardus   "  " 

Louis  Vacher  Booraem  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

Rev.  Sylvester  Daley  Boorom  .  .  .   Chaplain  U.  S.  N. 

WiLLLUH  L.  Brower  New- York  City. 

Alphonso  Trumpbour  Clearwater  .  .  Kingston,  N.  Y. 
Rev.  Charles  Knapp  Clearwater  .  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 
Rev.  Theodore  Ledyard  Cuyler,  D.  D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Henry  P.  De  Graaf  New- York  City. 

Alfred  de  Groot  Port  Richmond,  S.  I. 

William  de  Groot  New- York  City. 

Chauncey  Mitchell  Depew   "  " 

Edgar  de  Peyster   "  " 

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Frederick  J.  de  Peyster  New- York  City. 

Alfred  De  Witt   "  " 

George  G.  De  Witt,  Jr   "  " 

Henry  Clinton  De  Witt   "  " 

Jerome  De  Witt  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

Peter  De  Witt  New- York  City. 

Thomas  Dunkin  De  Witt    ....  PeLham  Manor,  N.  Y. 

William  G.  De  Witt   New- York  City. 

Morris  H.  Dillenbeck   "  " 

Rev.  Joseph  Rankin  Duryee,  D.  D.  .  .        "  " 

Peter  Q.'  Eckerson    "  " 

Joseph  Perot  Hegeman  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 

W.  A.  Ogden  Hegeman  New- York  City. 

Pierre  Clute  Hoag,  M.  D   "  " 

William  M.  Hoes   "  " 

Jacob  Warren  Hoysradt   Hudson,  N.  Y. 

Arthur  Middleton  Jacobus,  M.  D.  .  .  New- York  City. 

Richard  Mentor  Jacobus   "  " 

Jeremiah  Johnson,  Jr   "  " 

Clarence  Van  Steenburgh  Kip    ...        "  " 

George  G,  Kip   "  " 

Abraham  Lott   Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Wilhelmus  Mynderse  New- York  City. 

Andrew  Joseph  Onderdonk   "  " 

William  M.  Onderdonk   "  " 

Stephen  Melancthon  Ostrander*  .  .        "  " 

John  Paul  Paulison   "  " 

John  Van  Schaick  Lansing  Pruyn  .  .  .  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Abraham  C.  Quackenbush  New- York  City. 

James  Westervelt  Quackenbush  *  .  .  Hackensack,  N.  J. 

Stewart  Rapelje  Leonia,  N.  J. 

Augustus  Rapelye  New- York  City. 

Daniel  Bennett  St.  John  Roosa,  M.  D.       "  " 

Charles  H.  Roosevelt  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 

Cornelius  Van  Schaack  Roosevelt,  South  Orange,  N.  J. 

Frederick  Roosevelt  New- York  City. 

Henry  E.  Roosevelt  New  RocheUe,  N.  Y. 


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Nicholas  Latrobe  Roosevelt    ....  New- York  City. 

Robert  Barnwell  Roosevelt    ....        "  " 

Theodore  Roosevelt   "  " 

Henry  J.  Schenck   "  " 

George  Frederick  Schermerhorn   .   Rutherford,  N.  J. 

Augustus  Schoonmaker  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

Frederick  W.  Schoonmaker  New- York  City. 

Garret  L.  Schuyler    "  " 

M.  Roosevelt  Schuyler   "  " 

Allen  Lee  Smidt    "  " 

John  William  Somarindyck  Glen  Cove,  L.  I. 

Henry  Stuyvesant  New- York  City. 

Peter  J.  Stuyvesant   "  " 

Charles  Crooke  Suydam  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

James  Suydam  New- York  City. 

Rev.  J.  Howard  Suydam,  D.  D  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

John  R.  Suydam   SayviUe,  L.  I. 

John  T.  Sxtydam  •  New- York  City. 

Lambert  Suydam   "  " 

Frederick  D.  Tappen    "  " 

Sandpord  R.  Ten  Eyck   "  " 

Stephen  Vedder  Ten  Eyck,  M.  D.  .  .  .        "  " 

^       ^  ^    ( New  Bruns- 
Rev.  William  Hoffman  Ten  Eyck,  D.  D.,  ^      .  ,  t 

<    wick,  N.  J. 

Lucas  L.  Van  Allen  New- York  City. 

Andrew  Van  Alstyne   "  " 

WiLLLUd  Van  Alstyne   "  " 

Edwin  E.  Van  Auken   "  " 

Eugene  Van  Benschoten   "  " 

Samuel  Van  Benschoten   "  " 

Clarence  R.  Van  Benthuysen  ....  "  " 

Frederick  T.  Van  Beuren   "  " 

Henry  S.  Van  Beuren   "  " 

Robert  W.  Van  Boskerck   "  " 

Arthur  Hoffman  Van  Brunt    ....  "  " 

Cornelius  Van  Brunt   "  " 

J.  Holmes  Van  Brunt  Bay  Ridge,  N.  Y. 


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John  D.  Van  Buren  *  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

John  Richard  Van  Buskirk  New- York  City. 

John  CotrwENHOVEN  Van  Cleaf    ...        "  " 

Augustus  Van  Cleef   "  " 

Rev.  Paul  Duryea  Van  Cleef,  D.  D.,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

Alexander  H.  Van  Cott  New- York  City. 

Joshua  M.  Van  Cott   "  " 

Walter  L.  Van  Denbergh  .  ....  Amsterdam,  N.  Y. 
Charles  Albert  Vanderhoof   ....  New- York  City. 

Elisha  O.  Vanderhoof   "  " 

Aaron  J.  Vanderpoel   "  " 

Augustus  H.  Vanderpoel   "  " 

Herman  Wendell  Vaitoer  Poel  ...  "  " 
Waldron  Burritt  Vanderpoel,  M.  D.  .        "  " 

Albert  Vander  Veer,  M.  D  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Benjamin  Beekman  Van  Derveer  .  .  New- York  City. 
Rev.  David  Newlands  Vanderveer,  D.D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Frank  F.  Van  Derveer  New- York  City. 

John  R.  Van  Derveer   "  " 

Lawrence  Van  Derveer  Rocky  Hill,  N.  J. 

William  L.  Vanderzee  New- York  City. 

Charles  H.  Van  Deventer   "  " 

Abram  Bovee  Van  Dusen   "  " 

Henry  S.  Van  Duzer   "  " 

Selah  Van  Duzer   "  " 

Selah  R.  Van  Duzer  Newburgh,  N.  Y. 

Henry  H.  Van  Dyck  New- York  City. 

Tbe  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  J.  van  Dyke,  Sr.  .  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Henry  J.  van  Dyke,  Jr.    .  New-York  City. 

GrBORGE  M.  VaN  HOESEN   "  " 

John  William  Van  Hoesen   "  " 

Eugene  Van  Loan  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Edward  Van  Ness   New- York  City. 

Russell  Van  Ness   "  " 

Alexander  T.  Van  Nest   "  " 

G.  Willett  Van  Nest   "  " 

Warner  Van  Norden   "  " 


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George  M.  Van  Nort    New- York  City. 

Davxd  Van  Nostrand   "  " 

John  E.  Van  Nostrand   "  " 

Edwakd  Van  Orden   "  " 

Henry  D.  Van  Orden                                "  " 

Gilbert  S.  Van  Pelt   "  " 

KiLiAEN  Van  Rensselaer   "  " 

Abraham  Van  Santvoord   "  " 

Richard  Van  Santvoord,  M.  D   New- York  City. 

Henry  Van  Schaick   "  " 

Jenkins  Van  Schaick    "  " 

John  Van  Schaick   Cobleskill,  N.  Y. 

Ferdinand  Van  Siclen   Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

George  West  Van  Siclen   New- York  City. 

Adrian  Van  Sinderen   Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Adrian  H.  Van  Sinderen   "  " 

W.  L,  Van  Sinderen   New- York  City. 

George  W.  Van  Slyck   "  " 

William  H.  Van  Slyck   "  " 

Rev.  John  Garnsey  Van  Slyke,  D.  D.  .  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

B.  Miller  Van  Syckel,  M.  D   New- York  City. 

Bennett  Van  Syckel   Trenton,  N.  J. 

Francis  Helme  Van  Vechten   ....  New- York  City. 

Henry  Clay  Van  Vechten   "  " 

Abraham  K.  Van  Vleck   "  " 

Robert  B.  Van  Vleck   "  " 

Deuse  M.  Van  Vliet   "  " 

Brevet  Major-General  Stewart  Van 

Vliet,  U.  S.  A  

James  Albert  Van  Voast   ....    Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Philip  Van  Volkenburgh,  Jr   New- York  City. 

Thomas  S.  Van  Volkenburgh    ....  "  " 

Bartow  W.  Van  Voorhis   "  " 

Bartow  W.  Van  Voorhis,  Jr   "  " 

Elias  W.  Van  Voorhis   "  " 

John  Van  Voorhis   Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Menzo  Van  Voorhis   "  " 


I  Washington,  D.  C. 


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"William  W.  Vam  Voorhis  New- York  City. 

Frederick  Boyd  Van  Vorst   "  " 

Hooper  Coiming  Van  Vorst   "  " 

John  Van  Vorst,  M.  D  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

George  Van  Wagent:n  New- York  City. 

Albert  Van  Wagneb  London,  England. 

Edgar  B.  Van  Winkle  New- York  City. 

Rev.  Isaac  Van  WdvKLE,  A.  M.  ...  Coldsprtng,  N.  Y. 

James  B.  Van  Woert  New- York  City. 

John  V.  Van  Woert   "  " 

John  V.  Van  Woert,  Jr   "  " 

John  R.  Van  Wormer   "  " 

Augustus  Van  Wyck  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Benjamin  Stevens  Van  Wyck    ....  New- York  City. 

Jacob  Theodorus  Van  Wyck   "  " 

John  Thurjlan  Van  Wyck   "  " 

John  H.  Van  Wyck   "  " 

WiLLLAM  Van  Wyck   "  " 

WiLLLAM  Edward  Van  Wyck   "  " 

William  H.  Van  Wyck,  M.  D   "  " 

J.  Leonard  Varick   "  " 

Theodore  Romeyn  Varick,  Jr   "  " 

Maus  R.  Vedder,  M.  D   "  " 

John  D.  Verjieule   "  " 

Jacob  Dyckman  Vermtlye   "  " 

William  G.  Verplanck   "  " 

Dantel  W.  Voorhees  Terre  Haute,  Ind. 

Benjamin  F.  Vosbuegh,  M.  D  New- York  City. 

Evert  Jansen  Wendell   "  " 

Jacob  Wendell   "  " 

Theodoric  Romeyn  Westbrook  *  .  .  .  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

John  C.  Westervelt  New- York  City. 

Peter  Wyckoff  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Augustus  W.  Wynkoop  Kinderhook,  N,  Y. 

Gerardus  Hilles  Wynkoop  New- York  City. 

James  D.  Wynkoop   "  " 


*  Deceased. 


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